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Welcome to the Virtual Reference SIG Wiki!This wiki is a shared space for Members of the Virtual Reference Special Interest Group (VR SIG) to find details on past meetings as well as upcoming ones. It is also designed to be a repository of information about services, resources, issues, and more that have been discussed at our quarterly Meetings (the next meeting date has not yet been scheduled).website copywriter online jobs dance lessons how to write a book review credit cardAlthough the ability to edit pages is password protected (the password will be given out at all VR SIG meetings), all pages in this wiki are inte...
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In [[Iran|Persia]] many libraries were established by the [[Zoroastrian]] elite and the [[Persian Kings]]. Among the first ones was a royal library in [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]]. One of the most important public libraries established around 667 AD in southwestern [[Iran]] was the [[Library of Gundishapur]]. It was a part of a bigger scientific complex located at the [[Academy of Gundishapur]]..
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In [[Iran|Persia]] many libraries were established by the [[Zoroastrian]] elite and the [[Persian Kings]]. Among the first ones was a royal library in [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]]. One of the most important public libraries established around 667 AD in southwestern [[Iran]] was the [[Library of Gundishapur]]. It was a part of a bigger scientific complex located at the [[Academy of Gundishapur]]..
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*Garrison, Dee (1979) ''Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876-1920''. New York: Free Press ISBN 0026938502
*Garrison, Dee (1979) ''Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876-1920''. New York: Free Press ISBN 0026938502
* Jones, Barbara M., [http://books.google.com/books?id=rK5syOKSkBIC&printsec=frontcover "Libraries, Access, and Intellectual Freedom"], American Library Association, 1999.
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*Barnett, Graham Keith (1987) ''Histoire des bibliothèques publiques en France de la Révolution à 1939''; traduit de l'anglais par Thierry Lefèvre et Yves Sardat. Paris: Promodis (Translation of: The history of public libraries in France from the Revolution to 1939, London: Library Association, 1973)
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* Bobinski, George S. (1969) ''Carnegie Libraries: their history and impact on American...
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* [http://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page Library and Information Science Wiki]
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* [http://www.archive.org/stream/someoldegyptianl003090mbp/someoldegyptianl003090mbp_djvu.txt ''Some Old Egyptian Librarians'', Ernest Gushing Richardson, Charles Sribners, 1911]
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* [http://www.archive.org/stream/someoldegyptianl003090mbp/someoldegyptianl003090mbp_djvu.txt ''Some Old Egyptian Librarians'', Ernest Gushing Richardson, Charles Sribners, 1911]
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Over 30,000 clay tablets from the [[Library of Ashurbanipal]] have been discovered at [[Nineveh]] <ref>http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/ashurbanipal_library_phase_1.aspx "Assurbanipal Library Phase 1", British Museum One</ref>, providing archaeologists with an amazing wealth of Mesopotamian literary, religious and administrative work. Among the...
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Over 30,000 clay tablets from the [[Library of Ashurbanipal]] have been discovered at [[Nineveh]] <ref>http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/ashurbanipal_library_phase_1.aspx "Assurbanipal Library Phase 1", British Museum One</ref>, providing archaeologists with an amazing wealth of Mesopotamian literary, religious and administrative work. Among the findings were
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*[[Lawrence Blochman]]'s 1942 mystery ''Death Walks in Marble Halls'' features a murder committed using a brass spindle from a catalog drawer.
*[[Lawrence Blochman]]'s 1942 mystery ''Death Walks in Marble Halls'' features a murder committed using a brass spindle from a catalog drawer.
*A charming, lightly fictionalized portrait of the [http://www.nypl.org/humanities/jewish Jewish Division's] first chief, [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/freidus.html Abraham Solomon Freidus], is found...
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*[http://alfinuruguay.com Alfabetización Informacional en Uruguay]
*[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/aaslinfolit/informationliteracy1.cfm American Association of School Librarians]
*[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/aaslinfolit/informationliteracy1.cfm American Association of School Librarians]
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In 2003 the [[Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)|Ipswich]] MP [[Chris Mole]] introduced a [[Private Member's Bill]], which eventually passed, becoming the [[Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003]]. This Act extends United Kingdom legal deposit requirements to electronic documents, such as [[CD-ROM]]s and selected [[websites]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_20030028_en_1|title=Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003|publisher=Office of Public Sector Information|access...
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The British Library was created in 1973 by the ''British Library Act 1972''.<ref name=blhistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/history/index.html|title=History of the British Library|publisher=British Library|accessdate=2010-02-07|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5nMvVlrFD|archivedate=2010-02-07}}</ref> Prior to this, the national library was part of the [[British Museum]], which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside va...
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For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around [[central London]], in places such as [[Bloomsbury]] (within the [[British Museum]]), [[Chancery Lane tube station|Chancery Lane]], and [[Holborn]], with an interlibrary lending centre at [[Boston Spa]], [[Wetherby]] in [[West Yorkshire]] (situated on [[Thorp Arch Trading Estate]]) and the newspaper library at [[Colindale]], north-west London.<ref name=blhistory/> However, since 1997 the main collection has ...
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For many years its collections were dispersed in various buildings around [[central London]], in places such as [[Bloomsbury]] (within the [[British Museum]]), [[Chancery Lane tube station|Chancery Lane]], and [[Holborn]], with an interlibrary lending centre at [[Boston Spa]], [[Wetherby]] in [[West Yorkshire]] (situated on [[Thorp Arch Trading Estate]]) and the newspaper library at [[Colindale]], north-west London.<ref name=blhistory/> However, since 1997 the main collection has ...
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[[Image:NewtonBlakePaolozzi1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Bronze sculpture ''Newton, after William Blake'', 1995, by [[Eduardo Paolozzi]]]]
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