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In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire--a "mortuary...
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Oak Knoll Press
Pub. Date
2004-<2012>
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English
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This set addresses the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Volume 1 reveals the rich history of the early archive libraries from Crete to the famous library of the Ptolemies in Alexandria. The second volume addresses the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture and reveals the development of the Roman book tradition built from and with knowledge of the Greek tradition. The...
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Canadian Library Association. Occasional paper volume no. 75
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Canadian Library Association
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
5) Bibliotecas Medievais: semântica, poder, mobilidade, globalização - BMED:SPMG = Medieval libraries
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Centro de Estudos de História do Livro e da Edição - CEHLE
Pub. Date
2014-
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Portuguese
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Columbia University studies in library service volume no. 5
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Columbia university press
Pub. Date
1939
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English
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Kli͡ub pryi͡ateliv ukraïnsʹkoï knyz͡hky volume kn. 25
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Vydavet͡sʹ Ivan Tyktor
Pub. Date
1955.
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Ukrainian
14) American librarianship from a European angle: an attempt at an evaluation of policies and activities
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American Library Association
Pub. Date
1939.
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English
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Palgrave
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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"Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book surveys popular tastes, the interrelationship...
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Oak Knoll Press
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2007
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English
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"Movements of books, both as individual volumes and as collections, have sometimes covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, as well as the intervention of the book trade and of collectors, the travels of books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell. One of the most active areas of current research in book history is concerned with interpreting the clues from...