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De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België: vier decennia van nationale representatie in architectuur, stedenbouw en interieurinrichting | Scriptiebank. Libraries And Librarians - DigitalNZ. Peter - Sodann - Bibliothek (Staucha / Sachsen) Bibliothekskataloge / Konrad Umlauf. Leesgewoonten : een halve eeuw onderzoek naar het lezen en zijn belagers. Picavan1969tot2002. Civilisation | Histoire de l'écriture. Boekwetenschap & Handschriftenkunde. The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton. When I look back at the plight of American research libraries in 2010, I feel inclined to break into a jeremiad.

In fact, I want to deliver three jeremiads, because research libraries are facing crises on three fronts; but instead of prophesying doom, I hope to arrive at a happy ending. I can even begin happily, at least in describing the state of the university library at Harvard. True, the economic crisis hit us hard, so hard that we must do some fundamental reorganizing, but we can take measures to make a great library greater, and we can put our current difficulties into perspective by seeing them in the light of a long history. Having begun in 1638 with the 400 books in John Harvard’s library, we now have accumulated nearly 17 million volumes and 400 million manuscript and archival items scattered through 45,000 distinct collections.

There are few places aside from research libraries where rare books and e-books can be brought together. Jeremiad 1 Jeremiad 2 Jeremiad 3. Text and university / Ivan Illich. Beautiful library-pearls. 9 More Gorgeous European Libraries. Van Mundaneum tot Europeana: erfgoed als utopie/ Jeroen Walterus. Cataloging History Timeline.