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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of Middle Earth and other fictional libraries, Kells explores the bookish places that capture our imaginations. The result is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder, a celebration of books as objects and an account of the deeply personal nature of these hallowed spaces.
Publisher
Arlington Information Channel 31
Pub. Date
[No date identified].
Language
English
Description
Based on excerpts from the Arlington Historical Magazine, Jeanne Rose discusses the history of Arlington as a colony to when its first library was established in the early 1900's. Rose also discusses the creation of Arlington's various library branches. Phtos and drawings of the various branches are displayed. The second program discusses the process of retirement in Arlington County. Jean LaJewski highlights publications that offer guides to retirement,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with beanbags and children's drawings--the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident. In The Library, the first major work of its kind, historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen trace this extraordinary history, from the famous collections of...
8) Prince of the press: how one collector built history's most enduring and remarkable Jewish library
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His remarkable collection testifies to the myriad connections Jews maintained with each other across political borders, and the contacts between Christians and Jews that books facilitated. From contact with the great courts...
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