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Author | : Jeffrey S. Reznick |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439661316 |
The US National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its beginnings in the early 19th century. The world's largest medical library and a federal government agency, it maintains and makes publicly available a diverse and world-renowned collection of materials dating from the 11th to the 21st centuries, and it produces a variety of electronic resources that millions of people around the globe search billions of times each year. The library also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology, and it coordinates the National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States. As the library anticipates its third century of public service, this book offers a visual history of its development from its earliest days through the late 20th century, as the institution has involved generations of visionary leaders and dedicated individuals who experienced the American Civil War, the world wars, the Cold War, and the dawn of the information age.
Author | : Michael Sappol |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780922233427 |
"This spectacular illustrated book showcases rare, beautiful, idiosyncratic, and sometimes surprising works in the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library. From thirteenth-century manuscripts to extravagant anatomical atlases to silent movies, pamphlets, magic lantern slides, stereograph cards, and much, much more, each item featured is a remarkable hidden treasure."--Jacket.
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Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Blind |
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Provision of library service to blind and physically handicapped individuals is an ever-developing art/science requiring a knowledge of individual needs, a mastery of information science processes and techniques, and an awareness of the plethora of available print and nonprint resources. This book is intended to bring together a composite overview of the needs of individials unable to use print resources and to describe current and historic practices designed to meet those needs. - Preface.
Author | : Susan Orlean |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476740194 |
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 | : Nicolas Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Library resources |
ISBN | : 9780712304092 |
In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Medical libraries |
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Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Medical libraries |
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Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 990 |
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Genre | : Medicine |
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author | : Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle, with staff of the US National Library of Medicine |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146712608X |
" ... A general introduction to the history of the library primarily through its own rich image collections and a handful of others selected from the collections of the National Archives, the National Museum of Health and Medicine, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and the Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences at Tulane University."--Introduction
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical libraries |
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