library tour2010
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A beautiful visual history of our greatest libraries. Principles and practices through the ages that are just as relevant now ... supports why we need a Learning Commons.TRANSCRIPT
Tim’s Virtual* Library Tour2010
* All but one have been destroyed by biblioclasts!
The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal (Nineveh)
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
The Library at Alexandria (Egypt)
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”
Teacher-Librarians
The Ulpian Library of Trajan (Rome)
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
The House of Wisdom (Bagdad)
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
Teacher-Librarians
The Abbey Library of St Gall (Switzerland)
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
Teacher-Librarians
Tim’s (Dream!)Library Tour 2011
* Tim is now retired and on limited funds!
Tim’s (Actual!)Library Tour 2007
* Tim still had the money!
The New British Library in London.
The train to Hogwarts leaves from St. Pancras here!
From Tim’s Library Tour, 2010
SCDSB, Ontario
What is old is new again!
•Preservation
•Access
•Learning
•Creation
•Community
•Wisdom
•Pleasure
Teacher-Librarians
Thank You For Joining Tim’s
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