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The_Librarian
Apr 15, 2013, 5:53:35 AM4/15/13
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As we may appreciate, library buildings are nowadays as fascinating as their book collections. Often the appearance of a building outside gives us some insight of what to expect inside. What really makes a library building fascinating? The size of the building, the shape of the building, the age of the building? Perhaps the architecture of the building is groundbreaking, or perhaps it is simply a very expensive building!
Back in 2003 and again in 2006, during research work for the first and second edition of Library World Records, the author sent out e-mails to several Internet-based bulletin boards for librarians around the world, asking for a vote on the most fascinating library buildings in the world they had visited or seen at home or abroad. The categories voted for were:
1. 10 most fascinating national library buildings.
2. 10 most fascinating university library buildings.
3. 10 most fascinating public library buildings.
4. 10 most fascinating special library buildings.
The results for both the 2003 and 2006 votes on the most fascinating library buildings in the world, with photographs of all the winning library buildings voted for, were published respectively in the 1st and 2nd edition of Library World Records.
Now with a much bigger 3rd edition of Library World Records almost finished, it is time to once again cast your vote. The results of this current survey on the most fascinating library buildings in the world, with photographs of all the winning library buildings voted, will be published in the forthcoming 3rd edition of Library World Records.
http://www.lwrw.org/formphp.html
What is Library World Records?
Library World Records is a fascinating book first published in 2004 after research work began on the book in 2002. The book was further extensively updated in a second edition in December 2009. Library World Records provides hundreds of intriguing and comprehensive facts about ancient and modern books, manuscripts and libraries around the world. A much bigger 3rd edition of the book is being researched at the moment and further details of this brand new edition will be revealed on this website around spring 2013.
N.B. Although it soon becomes obvious from the theme of this book, Library World Records is not the Guinness Book of World Records specifically on books and libraries, as no such book exists!
Library World Records book provides answers to such questions as:
Which universities in Asia, the Middle East and the Americas have the largest libraries?
What is the name of oldest public libraries in all of the different continents of the world?
In what year was the first CD-ROM book released?
what is the name of the oldest texts written in Greek and Latin?
In what years were the first books to be printed in French, Thai, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and Turkish printed?
What is the name of the oldest extant books written in Chinese, English, German, Russian, Mongolian and Malay?
When was the first major computer database used in libraries?
What is the title of the largest and smallest and most expensive books ever published?
Where in the world is the world’s busiest public library?
Which famous horror fiction writer worked in a library?
Which is the name of the first Sub-Saharan African university library founded in the 14th century?
What are the titles of the largest and smallest books in the world?
Which library has the most expensive budget in the world?
Which 50 major movies were filmed in libraries?
How many libraries are there in Russia, France and Egypt?
Which library in Europe has the oldest copy of the Gutenberg Bible?
When were the first 10 university libraries in Asia and the Middle East founded?
Where can we find the oldest extant library building in the world?
What is the name of the first library in Europe to open 24 hours a day?
Even though much of Africa had a strong oral tradition, what is the name of the first major book to be written in Africa, in an African language, south of the Sahara Desert?
Which countries publish the largest number of books in the world?
What are the names of the very first three books to contain photographs?
Where are the tallest bookstore and library buildings in the world?
What is the name of the most expensive book theft in the world?
What is the name of the famous book that caused its author to be burned at stake for being a heretic?
What is the name of the list of books that were banned by the Vatican for hundreds of years?
What is the name of the oldest surviving papyrus, parchment and paper manuscripts?
Which libraries around the world have more than 500 staff members?
What is the name of the first book to have page numbers?
What is the name of the first book to be printed in colour?
What are the names of the largest art libraries, history databases, engineering libraries, and geography databases?
What are the names of the 100 largest libraries in the world?
What are the names of the 100 oldest libraries in the world?
These inquisitive questions are just a few samples of over 500 questions, whose answers can be found in second edition of Library World Records, the first specific book of its kind to be published in the world covering a wide range of library and book superlatives, and in paperback format.
http://www.lwrw.org/Aboutrecords2.htm
Godfrey Oswald
BSc, MSc, (LOn)
London, U.K.
Librarian, information consultant
Back in 2003 and again in 2006, during research work for the first and second edition of Library World Records, the author sent out e-mails to several Internet-based bulletin boards for librarians around the world, asking for a vote on the most fascinating library buildings in the world they had visited or seen at home or abroad. The categories voted for were:
1. 10 most fascinating national library buildings.
2. 10 most fascinating university library buildings.
3. 10 most fascinating public library buildings.
4. 10 most fascinating special library buildings.
The results for both the 2003 and 2006 votes on the most fascinating library buildings in the world, with photographs of all the winning library buildings voted for, were published respectively in the 1st and 2nd edition of Library World Records.
Now with a much bigger 3rd edition of Library World Records almost finished, it is time to once again cast your vote. The results of this current survey on the most fascinating library buildings in the world, with photographs of all the winning library buildings voted, will be published in the forthcoming 3rd edition of Library World Records.
http://www.lwrw.org/formphp.html
What is Library World Records?
Library World Records is a fascinating book first published in 2004 after research work began on the book in 2002. The book was further extensively updated in a second edition in December 2009. Library World Records provides hundreds of intriguing and comprehensive facts about ancient and modern books, manuscripts and libraries around the world. A much bigger 3rd edition of the book is being researched at the moment and further details of this brand new edition will be revealed on this website around spring 2013.
N.B. Although it soon becomes obvious from the theme of this book, Library World Records is not the Guinness Book of World Records specifically on books and libraries, as no such book exists!
Library World Records book provides answers to such questions as:
Which universities in Asia, the Middle East and the Americas have the largest libraries?
What is the name of oldest public libraries in all of the different continents of the world?
In what year was the first CD-ROM book released?
what is the name of the oldest texts written in Greek and Latin?
In what years were the first books to be printed in French, Thai, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and Turkish printed?
What is the name of the oldest extant books written in Chinese, English, German, Russian, Mongolian and Malay?
When was the first major computer database used in libraries?
What is the title of the largest and smallest and most expensive books ever published?
Where in the world is the world’s busiest public library?
Which famous horror fiction writer worked in a library?
Which is the name of the first Sub-Saharan African university library founded in the 14th century?
What are the titles of the largest and smallest books in the world?
Which library has the most expensive budget in the world?
Which 50 major movies were filmed in libraries?
How many libraries are there in Russia, France and Egypt?
Which library in Europe has the oldest copy of the Gutenberg Bible?
When were the first 10 university libraries in Asia and the Middle East founded?
Where can we find the oldest extant library building in the world?
What is the name of the first library in Europe to open 24 hours a day?
Even though much of Africa had a strong oral tradition, what is the name of the first major book to be written in Africa, in an African language, south of the Sahara Desert?
Which countries publish the largest number of books in the world?
What are the names of the very first three books to contain photographs?
Where are the tallest bookstore and library buildings in the world?
What is the name of the most expensive book theft in the world?
What is the name of the famous book that caused its author to be burned at stake for being a heretic?
What is the name of the list of books that were banned by the Vatican for hundreds of years?
What is the name of the oldest surviving papyrus, parchment and paper manuscripts?
Which libraries around the world have more than 500 staff members?
What is the name of the first book to have page numbers?
What is the name of the first book to be printed in colour?
What are the names of the largest art libraries, history databases, engineering libraries, and geography databases?
What are the names of the 100 largest libraries in the world?
What are the names of the 100 oldest libraries in the world?
These inquisitive questions are just a few samples of over 500 questions, whose answers can be found in second edition of Library World Records, the first specific book of its kind to be published in the world covering a wide range of library and book superlatives, and in paperback format.
http://www.lwrw.org/Aboutrecords2.htm
Godfrey Oswald
BSc, MSc, (LOn)
London, U.K.
Librarian, information consultant
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