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Dear Librarians, The eagerly awaited second edition of the popular reference book "Library World Records" was published last week (December 24th). It was first published in 2004, and the 2009 edition is a big update to the earlier edition. N.B. If you are an book editor or reviewer of library or reference books and would like a free complimentary copy to review in your publication, please email me your contact details. More information on the book, including a table of contents is available at: http://www.lwrw.info/Aboutrecords2.htm Book Reviews: http://www.lwrw.info/review.htm Book Order information: http://www.lwrw.info/order.htm __________ About Library World Records Library World Records is fascinating book first published in 2004 and updated in a second edition in 2008, 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? 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? When was the first major computer database released? 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? 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? 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? 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 oldest surviving papyrus, parchment and paper manuscript? Which libraries around the world have more than 600 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 terrific 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. Godfrey Oswald LWR Book Project London, U.K.