Great libraries (photos link)

Started by quiller, January 12, 2015, 07:17:21 AM

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Here's some of the most outstanding photographs of world-famous (and not-so-famous) libraries and the incredible design and architectural work involved....

http://www.boredpanda.com/extraordinary-libraries/#post3

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Beautiful architecture, and soon to be museums, replaced by.

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Quote from: quiller on January 12, 2015, 07:17:21 AM
Here's some of the most outstanding photographs of world-famous (and not-so-famous) libraries and the incredible design and architectural work involved....

http://www.boredpanda.com/extraordinary-libraries/#post3

Hmm... DON'T tell my wife, she will ask for one of each.   :drool:
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Quote from: Solar on January 12, 2015, 08:01:22 AM
Beautiful architecture, and soon to be museums, replaced by.


And when an EMP sends us back to oral history, what then?

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Quote from: quiller on January 12, 2015, 08:34:09 PM
And when an EMP sends us back to oral history, what then?
Actually a computer network, either underground or simply placed in a Faraday cage would easily survive better than an above ground library hit by an nuclear blast, or even an EMP, considering the risk of fire to follow.
A cell phone in a refrigerator, a Kindle in the trunk of a car, a computer in a basement setting could survive.
But if one is really wanting to protect all these writings, they already scanned the pages of all the great works to computer/digital copy, as does the library of Congress, and placed them underground in protected vaults.

I have a passion for old books. Part of me wants to protect them like irreplaceable works of art, while the other side of me wants them kept for posterity.
The best of both worlds is saved digitally and spread around the globe, think, Library of Alexandria.

Here's a fascinating read if you have the time. It''s in PDF format.

THE DESTRUCTION OF LIBRARIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In 1880 the printer and bibliographer William Blades published The Enemies of
Books. Among the enemies he described are fire, water, gas and heat, dust,
ignorance and bookbinders. This catalogue of horrors is a recurring nightmare for
booklovers all over the world and it cannot be denied that these 'enemies' are as
powerful today as ever were before. The accumulation of books in this century and the
continuing threats to the collections have made librarians more aware than ever that
measures must be taken to preserve our written heritage.
The diverse nature of the 'enemies' makes it hard to check or fight them. Blades
restricted himself mostly to accidental or natural causes of decay, like age, neglect
and the destructive work of insects. But harmful as these are, they sometimes fall
short of wilful actions designed to cause damage. This is especially true of arson and
destruction in war time. Moreover, hatred of books has always been a powerful motive
to destroy them. In 213 BC the Ch'in emperor Shih Huang-ti ordered the first recorded
burning of books and his motives have a very familiar ring: books allegedly contained
nothing but idle speculation and only excited people to criticize the government.
However frail the material on which it is written or printed, the written word has always
been regarded as having power over the minds of men and many rulers have seen fit
to follow Shih Huang's example in burning, banishing and destroying books and their
authors.

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