Dear Librarians, Information professionals, library school students,

I am pleased to announce that after months of being only available in the U.S. and Canada since August 2017, my new library reference book is now available outside the U.S.

Library World Records is a fascinating reference book first published in 2004 after intensive research work began on the book back 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.   

15 years has passed since I first began research work on the reference book, and I am pleased to say that a much bigger brand new 3rd edition of Library World Records is now available. The new edition is available outside the U.S. from today.

Public libraries as well as libraries in colleges, universities around the world can now order the book from their usual 3rd party bulk book ordering firms such Baker & Taylor, YPB or EBSCO. 

Library World Records provides over 600  intriguing and comprehensive facts about ancient and modern books, manuscripts, serials, librarians and libraries around the world. 

I hope this new amazing reference book will inspire more young people out there to take up the profession of a librarian or information scientist.

Major Highlights of 3rd Edition:
ISBN (13 numbers):   978-1-4766-6777-5.

* 401 pages, 156 new photographs. Includes a detailed bibliography, an appendix and a 48-page comprehensive index. Paperback (alkaline) edition, 7 x 10 inches. 

During research work for the first and second editions 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 results of votes were published in the first and second edition of Library World Records and provided some surprises. I am pleased to say that there is a list of brand new nominations and winners is provided in the 3rd edition of the book. If you were one of the hundreds of librarians who voted in 2014/2015, be sure to check out the 3rd edition of Library World Records , when it is published in 2017. 

More information about the new book is at:

http://www.lwrw.org

Regards

Godfrey Oswald
BSc, MSc (Information Science)
Author
Library World Records
3rd edition, 2017.
London, U.K.