Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Library Bulletins
Author: Columbia University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Library Bulletins
Author: Library Bulletins
Author: Columbia University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Library as Place
Author: Geoffrey T. FreemanPublisher: Council on Library & Information Resources
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.
Dartmouth College Library Bulletin
Author: Dartmouth College. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Part of Our Lives
Author: Wayne A. WiegandPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190248009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
A Century of Philadelphia Cricket
Author: John A. LesterPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803944
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Lost Hanover, New Hampshire
Author: Frank J. Barrett Jr.Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467148997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From the moment in 1770 when Reverend Eleazar Wheelock located Dartmouth College in Hanover, the "College on the Hill" and the "Village at the College" have been inseparably linked as one. And from the time when the first log hut was constructed to the present, the built and natural environments have evolved as part of an organic evolutionary process. Due to changing architectural tastes, neglect and growth, many of the historic buildings that once flourished are no longer standing. Bygone landmarks like the beautiful entry porte-cochere at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the handful of handsome buildings that marked the start of the University of New Hampshire are now lost to history. Join architect and historian Jay Barrett as he uncovers the stories behind the forgotten treasures of Hanover.
Friends of the Library Groups (public Library Ed.) ...
Author: American Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
To Tell Their Children
Author: Rachel L. GreenblattPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804788812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories—stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On the basis of this material, Greenblatt shows how members of this community sought to preserve for future generations their memories of others within the community and the events that they experienced. Throughout, the author seeks to go beyond the debates inspired by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's influential Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, often regarded as the seminal work in the field of Jewish communal memory, by focusing not on whether Jews in a pre-modern community had a historical consciousness, but rather on the ways in which they perceived and preserved their history. In doing this, Greenblatt opens a window onto the roles that local traditions, aesthetic sensibilities, gender, social hierarchies, and political and financial pressures played in the construction of local memories.