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Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
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 ...
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library is principal repository for special collections of Columbia University.Located in New York City on the university's Morningside Heights campus, its collections span more than 4,000 years, from early Mesopotamia to the present day, and span a variety of formats: cuneiform tablets, papyri, and ostraca, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, early printed books ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Organized collection of books or other information resources For other uses, see Library (disambiguation). Library patron retrieving a book from a shelf A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of ...
The Small Library: A Guide to the Collection and Care of Books. London & New York: Routledge, 1907. Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. 8th ed. edited by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2004. ISBN 0-7123-4822-0 (British Library), ISBN 1-58456-112-2 (Oak Knoll). (a classic, first published in 1952). Carter ...
Edward Everett Ayer (November 16, 1841 – May 3, 1927) [1] was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts from Native American and colonial-era history and ethnology, which were donated to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded research library of history and the humanities on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. [1] The library's rare book, manuscript, and map collections encompass a variety of topics related to the history of European exploration and colonization of the New World until circa 1825.