Libraries as Agencies of Culture (Print Culture History in Modern America) Librariespublic, school, and academic librariesare ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays explore the role of the library in the...
To understand what a library is, it is useful to know thehistory of libraries, how they developed over time, and what traditions of the early libraries continue in modern libraries. The wordlibraryis from the Latinliber,meaning ‘book,’ and a library has traditionally meant a collection of ...
to compile a Guide to manuscripts relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland; and, secondly (the matter of this report), to find out how adequate are the resources of libraries in the United Kingdom to support the teaching of American history and also of American literature in the uni...
networked libraries, and affordable paperback editions is that we have an unprecedented opportunity to get the story right or, at minimum, less wrong in our own minds. And yet, as Mark Twain said, the man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them, and ...
Lockyer took science journalism seriously, and his sense of a good story was one of his strengths. As editor of Nature, Gregory did much to continue promoting the idea of science journalism. In an address to the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, Gregory complained that ...
Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/american-library-association-names-2022s-most-banned-books-180982048/) that 2022 saw more attempts to have books removed from public libraries than in any prior year this century — indeed, it documented more than twice as many attempted bans in 2022 than in 2021...
Libraries Are Cutting Back on Staff and Services After Trump's Order to Dismantle Small Agency Libraries across the United States have cut back on some digital services weeks after the Trump administration's move to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services Associated Press...
│├─The Cambridge World History of Human Disease │└─The New Cambridge Medieval History ├─科技史 History of Science │└─The Cambridge History of Science ├─书籍史 History of the Book │├─The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland ...
You probably know Neil Gaiman is a famous writer, but you may not know he is also a strong advocate for the importance of public libraries. He gave a lecture in support of libraries in London on October 14, 2013, entitled Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming. You...