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From the founding of the University Library into the twentieth century, rare materials were housed within the main stacks. [5] Significant early acquisitions, now housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, include the Richard Aron collection on German pedagogy (20,000 items), [6] acquired in 1913; the H. A. Rattermann collection of German-American literature (7,000 items), [7] acquired in ...
This is a comprehensive list of the books written about the fictional character Doc Savage originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street & Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main writer, Lester Dent.
Note: Titles that begin with an article (A, An, Das, Der, Die (German: the), L' , La, Las, Le, Los or The) should be listed under the next word in the title. Very famous books and books for children may be listed both places to help people find them.
The son of Irish immigrants Charles Peter and Mary Ewing Evans, [3] Evans was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 13, 1850. [4] Evans' parents both died before he was ten years old, at which point Evans and eventually his older brother, Thomas John, were sent to live and study at the Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys on Thompson Island. [5]
List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of Australian crime-related books and media; List of anonymously published works; List of autobiographies; Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication
Story at a glance Illinois became the first state in the country to outlaw the practice of banning books Monday. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) signed a bill into law that withholds state funding for ...
This made finding a book difficult. The first issue of Library Journal, the official publication of the American Library Association (ALA), made clear that the most pressing issues facing libraries were the lack of a standardized catalog and an agency to administer a centralized catalog. Responding to the standardization matter, the ALA formed ...
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library is one of the largest public academic libraries in the United States, "more than thirteen million volumes and 24 million items and materials in all formats, languages, and subjects, including 9 million microforms, 120,000 serials, 148,000 audio-recordings, over 930,000 audiovisual materials ...