Library Tales

Library Tales Tube. Duration : 2.47 Mins.

I love libraries, except the awkward situations that you can have in them.

Library Society Lecture on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Library Society Lecture on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Tube. Duration : 45.13 Mins.

In an event hosted by the University of Chicago Library Society at the Quadrangle Club on October 13, 2010, Christina von Nolcken, Associate Professor in Eng...

Digitizing the World's Biggest Library

Digitizing the World's Biggest Library Tube. Duration : 3.22 Mins.

Bright lights and wires are part of a new look at the United States Library of Congress. This machine is one of several web servers that put information from the Library of Congress on the Internet. JANE MANDELBAUM: All the data on our Web site is here. Jane Mandelbaum is responsible for information technology services at the Library of Congress. For years, the library has been called the worlds largest library. That is because of its many books and documents. Officials estimate the Library of Congress has more than one hundred twenty million books and thirty-six thousand movies. It also has a large collection of music sheets and recordings, documents and pictures. Yet only one percent of all this has been digitally reproduced. Thomas Youkel says the library makes electronic copies of four to six million objects a year. A lot of those images and sounds are put on its Web site. The library is making digital versions of its collection mainly for safety reasons. Officials are worried about books and documents breaking down. Making digital reproductions is a long and costly process. This is a document from the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The Library of Congress has sixty-five million documents. The librarys James Hutson says the creative process of documents is getting lost in the computer age. The library is making digital versions of more than five million maps. Some, like this map of Africa, were painted on cloth more than a century ago. Books require a different ...

ATR's My Library New Books for mid-Oct 2012

ATR's My Library New Books for mid-Oct 2012 Tube. Duration : 17.13 Mins.

Books mentioned: Rand - The Romatnic Manifesto Horowitz - Indoctrination U Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac Spinoza - The Philosophy of Spinoza Hugo - Ninety-three Ibsen - Four Great Plays Crump - How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World Jorgsten - Great Battles Sowell - Inside American Education Gimpel - The Medieval Machine Ravitch - The Language Police Sowell - Education: Assumptions vs History Kendall - A Turn for DeWurst Verne - Collected Novels Wells - Collector's Book of Science Fiction Swanston - The Historical Atlas of World War II

Experience The Walker Library of Human Imagination

Experience The Walker Library of Human Imagination Tube. Duration : 4.22 Mins.

To find out more visit walkerdigital.com . What a treat it was to make this short film on this spectacular place and what it contained. The film was meant as a teaser to run at the extraordinary TED conference. To create this mood I used sophisticated camera techniques including a camera mounted on a wire, a 30 foot jib arm, and a miniature Dolly to float through this space and give just a taste of what it contains. Thank you for the opportunity, Jay Walker. To see more of my work, visit www.theHoffmancollection.com

Library of Alexandria Documentary

Library of Alexandria Documentary Tube. Duration : 43.60 Mins.

I do not own the rights to this program. This is for Fair use. The audio quality is iffy, so I apologize for the little bit of distortion that can be heard.

Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library)

Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library) Review

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Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library) Overview

Left penniless after his feckless father's death, young Nicholas Nickleby has no choice but to make his own way in the world. For the sake of his mother and sister, he is forced by his hard-hearted uncle to take a post as an assistant master at Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys, run by the cruel and tyrannical headmaster, Wackford Squeers. But this is only the beginning of Nicholas's adventures in this most entertaining of Charles Dickens's novels. We follow the progress of Nicholas and his slow-witted companion Smike on their travels and encounter a supporting cast of delectable characters including the rambunctious Crummles theatre company and their talented performing pony, the dastardly Sir Mulberry Hawk, the delightful Mrs. Nickleby, the preposterous Kenwings, and many more. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his criticism of cruelty and social injustice, but is above all one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature.

1904633846 ASIN

1904633846

The Library part 4 of 5

The Library part 4 of 5 Tube. Duration : 10.05 Mins.

...::Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman::... *Part 4 of 5, episode 4, season 3 - 'The Library'* Mike's mother sends a portion of Mike's deceased father's book collection by coach and Mike donates the books to the town for a public library. Mike's mother sends a portion of Mike's deceased father's book collection by coach and Mike donates the books to the town for a public library.

English Literature: Modern - Home University Library of Modern Knowledge

English Literature: Modern - Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Review

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English Literature: Modern - Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Overview

English Literature: Modern - Home University Library of Modern Knowledge is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of G. H. (George Herbert) Mair then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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B003VQQDTC

Standard Vocal Literature - An Introduction to Repertoire: Soprano (Vocal Library)

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This series of 5 book/CD packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert and Sullivan.

0634078739 ASIN

0634078739

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Work is simple, and yet it is novel. In its distinctive features it differs from any compilation that has yet been made. I ts main purpose is to present to American households a mass of good reading. But it goes much beyond this. For in selecting this reading it draws upon all literatures of all time and of every race, and thus becomes a conspectus of the thought and intellectual evolution of man from the beginning. A nother and scarcely less important purpose is the interpretation of this literature in essays by scholars and authors competent to speak with authority. The title, A Library of the World s Best Literature, is strictly descriptive. It means that what is offered to the reader is taken from the best authors, and is fairly representative of the best literature and of all literatures. It may be important historically, or because at one time it expressed the thought and feeling of a nation, or because it has the character of universality, or because the readers of to-day will find it instructive, entertaining, or amusing. The Work aims to suit a great variety of tastes, and thus to commend itself as a household companion for any mood and any hour. There is no intention of presenting merely a mass of historical material, however important it is in its place, which is commonly of the sort that people recommend others to read and do not read themselves. It is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read. The selections do not represent the partialities and prejudices and cultivation of any one person, or of a group of editors even; but, under the necessary editorial supervision, the sober judgment of almost as many minds as have assisted in the preparation of these volumes. By this method, breadth of appreciation has been sought.
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