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Author | : Susan Orlean |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476740194 |
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Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Author | : Mark Y. Herring |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2015-01-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0786453931 |
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This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROM's were all once predicted as the contemporary library's heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material.
Author | : Roxie Munro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780375844515 |
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Illustrations and brief text present all kinds of libraries, from bookmobiles and home libraries to the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.
Author | : Julie Broad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781736031506 |
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Author | : Maureen Sawa |
Publisher | : Tundra Books (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780887766985 |
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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!
Author | : Ainsworth Rand Spofford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Josiah Henry Benton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
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