Tim’s Virtual* Library Tour 2010
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Tim’s Virtual* Library Tour2010
* All but one have been destroyed by biblioclasts!
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The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal (Nineveh)
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From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
The Library of Ashurbanipal (Nineveh)
•7rd century BC – 605 CE•22,000+ fired clay tablets (stylus)•multiliterate royal collection of art, records, oral and written literature •first organization principles for retrieval•Epic of Gilgamesh
Teacher-Librarians
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The Library at Alexandria (Egypt)
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From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
The Library of Alexandria
•3rd century BC – 391 CE•part of the Musaeum (temple of the Muses)•1,000,000 (?) papyrus scrolls•research centre for scholars•had gardens, walkways, meeting rooms, •“The place of the cure of the soul”
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The Ulpian Library of Trajan (Rome)
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From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
The Ulpian Library of Rome (Trajan)
•100 – 450 CE•divided into adjoining libraries (Greek and Latin) of papyrus scrolls: one either side of Trajan’s column•beginning of a public library and reading room with little censorship or control•a sumptious public space
Teacher-Librarians
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The House of Wisdom (Bagdad)
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From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
The House of Wisdom (Bagdad)
•9th -13th century•established to preserve and create knowledge •Improved paper making from Chinese with linen books•welcomed Greek and latin scholars into a centre of intellectual development•included an observatory
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The Abbey Library of St Gall (Switzerland)
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From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
Abbey Library of St. Gall
•719- present•access first limited to scholars Contains 2,100 manuscripts (codices/parchment/books) from the 8th to 15th centuries, 1,650 incunabula (those printed before 1500) in addition to 160,000 volumes•now pre-1000 manuscripts available in digital library at http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
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Tim’s (Dream!)Library Tour 2011
* Tim is now retired and on limited funds!
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Tim’s (Actual!)Library Tour 2007
* Tim still had the money!
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The New British Library in London.
The train to Hogwarts leaves from St. Pancras here!
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From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
What is old is new again!
•Preservation
•Access
•Learning
•Creation
•Community
•Wisdom
•Pleasure
Teacher-Librarians
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