Download or read book The History and the Development of the Kimberley Africana Library and Its Relationship with the Kimberley Public Library written by Rosemary Jean Holloway and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Kimberley Public Library and Its Africana Collection written by O. McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."
Download or read book The History of the Kimberley Public Library 1870 1902 written by Febe Van Niekerk and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Kimberley Public Library Classic Reprint written by P. M. Laurence and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Kimberley-Public Library The Kimberley Library is of comparatively recent origin, having been established towards the end of 1882, and Opehed in January, 1883. It is a common experience that literary and intellectual interests are plants of slow growth in mining centres. The raw material and heterogeneous elements of which a rush of diggers is composed, in one of the Western States of America, have little in common with the academic spirit of Massachusetts. The men who gathered together at the dry diggings from all quarters of the world, when diamonds were discovered on the farm of Bultfontein, and at the new rush or Colesberg Kopje, afterwards to become famous as the town of Kimberley, were of a type very different from the leisured students of Mr. Dessin's books or Sir George Grey's collection in the metropolis of the Colony. As time went on, however, and life became more settled, Kimberley began to feel the need of books. An enterprising citizen established a circulating library; the Diamond Fields had a Mudie of their own. By and by, in the time of the great com pany mania, some benevolent individuals started the idea of establishing a public library under the Joint Stock Companies Act. The shares were taken up, mainly with the philanthropic Object of benefiting the community; but unfortunately the thing was planned on too large a scale, and the means adopted were scarcely suitable to the end. An extensive building, ill-adapted to the requirements of a library, was erected with the help of a mortgage. But the capital proved insufficient, times became bad, the public support, which was expected, was expected in vain; the mortgagees became impatient; and, in the end, the Library Company, like many another, went into liquidation, and the library building, purchased by the Municipality, was converted into the Town Hall Of Kimberley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Public Library of Western Australia written by Western Australia. Public Library, Perth and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Geological Society of South Africa written by Geological Society of South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Around the World with Mark Twain written by Robert Cooper and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Follow in the footsteps of one of America's most beloved writers, the immortal Mark Twain, as he circles the globe, performing before dozens of standing-room-only crowds.On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train from Elmira to Cleveland and launched an unprecedented worldwide performance tour. A superb platform entertainer and an international celebrity, Clemens saw the tour as a quick way to make the money he desperately needed to pay his creditors and recoup his fortune, and so he began a journey that took him across North America to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa. One hundred years later, American writer Robert Cooper set out from Elmira in pursuit of Twain, following virtually every step of the legendary writer's itinerary across four continents.In this remarkable feat of biographical recreation, we see Clemens make his way to the smelters, roasting ovens, and smokestacks of Butte, Montana, where pollution was so horrific that not even grass could grow; to Baroda, India, where he examined the gold and silver ornaments of the ruler's elephants and noted their proximity to an utterly destitute village; and to a vermin-infested jail in Pretoria, South Africa, where he lifted the spirits of some of the country's richest men, the imprisoned members of the Reform Committee who had been convicted of treason by the Boer government. We glimpse Clemens the consummate professional, constantly rehearsing his routines so that they would seem completely spontaneous. And we even see Twain the celebrity: railing against late trains and ferries, grumbling about hotel accommodations, and complaining about ill health and the tedium and drudgery of endless one-night stands, all the while basking in the adulation and affection of his audiences, enjoying the all-male camaraderie of club suppers and press conferences, and delighting in meeting the great and powerful of the lands through which he traveled.Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources and first-hand accounts-including Clemens's letters, journal entries, and notes; his comments to local newspapers; the letters of his wife and daughter who accompanied him; and the observations of his tour managers-Robert Cooper has created an utterly absorbing combination of travel writing, social history, character study, and historiography. The first book-length treatment of this heroic journey since Clemens's own century-old narrative, Around the World with Mark Twain is a fascinating account of an extraordinary year in the life of an American icon."
Download or read book Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa written by Geological Society of South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Printing Presses written by James Moran and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Southern African Libraries written by State Library (South Africa) and published by Pretoria : State Library. This book was released on 1970 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s written by Reinette F. Jones and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the majority of libraries in the state of Kentucky did not offer services to African Americans between the years 1860 and 1960, public libraries did employ them. The Louisville Public Library, a leader in the development of library management and education from 1905 to 1925, began in 1912 offering classes to train African American women to be librarians in segregated public library branches that were opening in the South. In 1925, an academic library program was developed for African Americans at the Hampton Institute in Virginia to continue the work that began in Kentucky. This movement culminated with Helen F. Frye's becoming the first African-American to graduate with a master of science degree in library science from the University of Kentucky Library School in 1963. This work moves from the provision by Berea College of the first library services to a fully integrated student body in 1866 through the integration of the state's only accredited library science program at the University of Kentucky in 1949 to the civil rights initiatives of the 1960s. Also addressed are the interconnectedness of libraries and societal events and how one affected the other.
Download or read book Electricity Industry and Class in South Africa written by Renfrew Christie and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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