Author: Maureen Sawa
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780887766985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Everyone who has a library card (and those who don't will want one after reading this book) will love this fascinating account of how libraries have evolved. From camels delivering books in Kenya to information compression today, this is a book that's long overdue! Award-winning librarian Maureen Sawa takes readers on a breathless ride from the origins of libraries to the first bookshelves, from pack-horse librarians in Kentucky to the revolution that was vertical shelving. She presents familiar library heroes like Gutenberg and Benjamin Franklin and the more obscure ones, such as Hypatia, the great female librarian of Alexandria killed by a mob for opposing the teachings of Plato, and Vizier Abdul Kasem Ismail, the Persian bibliophile who traveled with forty camels carrying 117,000 books in alphabetical order. Libraries, past, present, and future, have a history as fascinating as the books they house. A must-have for every reader!
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Author: Kazuno Kohara
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447298187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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When we are fast asleep in bed, the Midnight Library opens its doors to all the night-time animals. Inside the library the little librarian and her three assistant owls help each and every animal to find the perfect book. But with a noisy squirrel band, an upset wolf and a slow-reading tortoise to help, they could all be in for a very busy night . . . A beautiful, big-hearted book about the joy of reading and the importance of libraries. Stylishly designed and produced, this is the perfect gift for anyone of any age that simply loves books.
Author: Oleg Kagan
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ISBN: 9781954640023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Author: Bahram Rahman
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ISBN: 9781772782653
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Inspired by Kabul, Afghanistan's first library bus and coloured by family memories, a touching snapshot of one innovative way girls received education in a country disrupted by war
Author: Frederic Beecher Perkins
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons [c1877]
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Edwin Paxton Hood
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Jeanette C. Smith
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078649056X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny. The spectrum of library humor from sources inside and outside the profession ranges from the subtle wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This examination of American library humor over the past 200 years covers a wide range of topics and spans the continuum between light and dark, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as objects of fear. It illuminates different types of librarians--the collector, the organization person, the keeper, the change agent--and explores stereotypes like the shushing little old lady with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the sexy librarian. Profiles of the most prominent library humorists round out this lively study.
Author: John Timbs
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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