QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #16
Libraries online
Check out these
web sites from three of the world’s most remarkable libraries.
“The Library of Congress is the nation's
oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress.
It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on
approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29
million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million
photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts.”
http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx
“The Bibliotheca Alexandrina , the New
Library of Alexandria, is dedicated to recapture the spirit of the original. It
aspires to be:
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The World’s
window on
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A leading
institution of the digital age; and, above all.
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A center
for learning, tolerance, dialogue and understanding. “
“Libraries are the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action. The New York Public Library is such a memory bank par excellence, one of the great knowledge institutions of the world, its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Virtually all of the Library's many collections and services are freely available to all comers. In fact, the Library has but one criterion for admission: curiosity.”