Dear Librarians,
I have addressed the difficulty in obtaining a copy of "Library World
Records" by updating a list of distributors of the book.
The latest updates can be seen at:
Book Order information: http://www.lwrw.info/order.htm
Because the book is published in U.S., most U.K. and European libraries can
order the book via Europspan and Baker & Taylor.
Any further enquiries, please email [log in to unmask]
Godfrey Oswald
LWR Book Project
London, U.K.
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About Library World Records
Library World Records is fascinating book first published in 2004 and
extensively updated in a second edition in 2009, that deals with hundreds of
intriguing facts about ancient and modern books and libraries around the
world.
The 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?
In what years were the first books in French, Thai, Japanese, Spanish,
Arabic and Turkish printed?
What is the name of the oldest extant book 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 surviving 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 publishes 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 extant papyrus, parchment and paper
manuscript?
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?
With more than 300 photographs from around the world on ancient and modern
libraries, papyrus, parchment and velum manuscripts, clay and stone
inscriptions, incunabula, and famous librarians, the 1st and second edition
of Library World Records offers readers amazing, incredible, and fascinating
facts and figures about libraries around the world, and the three important
things we normally find in them: books, periodicals and, databases. The book
deals with superlatives and comparative information such as the first, the
largest, the oldest, the smallest and other miscellanea, covering a period
of modern than 3000 years.
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