Download or read book The Harvard Library and the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library Building written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Harvard Library and the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library Building written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Harvard University Library written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Widener written by Matthew Battles and published by Widener Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library has led a spirited life as Harvard's physical and, in a sense, its spiritual heart. With copious illustrations and wide-ranging narrative, this book is not only a record of benefactors and collections; it is the tale of the students, scholars, and staff who give a great library its life.

Download or read book The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library written by George Parker Winship and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library An Unquiet History written by Matthew Battles and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.

Download or read book The Cyclop dia of American Biography written by James Grant Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Meaning of the Library written by Edith Hall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap.

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Download or read book The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library for Harvard University written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building A Great Library The Coolidge Years at Harvard written by William Bentinck-Smith and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Archibald Cary Coolidge [1866-1928]... was born into fortunate circumstances and could easily have spent his years in respectable indolence. In his formal boyhood schooling in a variety of educational institutions he showed no particular early promise of orderly thought and study. But he came alive at Harvard College... [H]e returned to his college, after rigorous study and stimulating travel in Europe, to make a memorable career as a professor of history and international affairs, as a teacher of scholars, as an academic man of affairs, and as the director of a great library. From childhood an instinctive, voracious reader, Coolidge early converted his enthusiasm for books into a deep concern for their use in the world of learning. As a young instructor and assistant professor, he searched out and bought scarce and important titles in his fields of interest and gave them to Harvard. His disciplined mind could not tolerate the crowding and disorder imposed on the Harvard Library by a combination of years of forced economy and haphazard growth. President A. Lawrence Lowell made no mistake in selecting his cousin Archibald Coolidge to help him find a solution to the library crisis Lowell had inherited from his predecessor. Coolidge took over with characteristic energy and enthusiasm. Whether he could have succeeded so completely had not tragedy struck the Widener family [Harry Elkins Widener, scion of two of the wealthiest families in America, Harvard ‘07, accomplished bibliophile despite his youth, died in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic; his father also perished, but his mother survived and gave to Harvard the funds to build the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library] is problematical. With the great Widener gift the question of space was settled for a generation, and Coolidge could bring his common sense to bear on the library’s administrative problems and concentrate his acquisitive talents on the strategy of scholarly collecting. Unsparing of himself and unfailingly generous in the cause of books and scholarship, Coolidge built wisely on the solid foundations of the past. He vastly extended the scope of the library’s collections and left a heritage of strength to the next generation, making possible the bold new departures in historical and international studies which followed the second World War.” — William Bentinck-Smith, Preface to Building A Great Library “[A] detailed description of Coolidge’s achievement in building a great and well-organized collection and one of the great libraries of the world... Bentinck-Smith has succeeded in making the building of a library fascinating. He provides excellent biographical footnotes... this is an elegant and important study in a greatly neglected field.” — Robert F. Byrnes, The Journal of American History “Building a Great Library is the story of [Coolidge’s] contribution. It is also of necessity the story of the man, a biography with emphasis on his life’s work. It is told with meticulous scholarship and literary style... an outstanding biographical work and a singularly important study of collection building.” — Arthur T. Hamlin, The Journal of Library History “Mr. Bentinck-Smith has carefully documented the many significant contributions which Coolidge had made as teacher, administrator, scholar, and collector... a book that should be carefully read by anyone interested in research libraries and learning. Mr. Bentinck-Smith’s work is an important contribution to American library history.” — Philip J. McNiff, The New England Quarterly “By telling us so much, Bentinck-Smith highlights once again how much we need a professional history of our premier academic library that will describe, analyze, and generalize Harvard’s experience as it illustrates or contrasts with the typical university library experience in the United States.” — W. L. Williamson, The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy

Download or read book The Library of Harvard University written by Alfred Claghorn Potter and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library for Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts A D MCMXIII written by Horace Trumbauer and published by . This book was released on with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guides to the Harvard Libraries written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard written by Bainbridge Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Harvard's architecture examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H.H. Richardson's Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, and the work of other architects such as Charles McKim, Gropius and Le Corbusier.