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THE Library of Alexandria was one of the marvels of the ancient world, until it burned in 48 B.C. Like the pyramids and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, its architectural reality was less important than its cultural one. Effectively, the pyramids are sculptures, gardens are, well gardens, and the library was not remembered for its built presence, but for its import as a repository for virtually all contemporary recorded human knowledge. It was the ancient world's Internet. In our culture, libraries have always been the symbolic presence of the intellectual side of human experience. Now, technology is rewriting their reality faster than architects can keep up.
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NORMAL - More strife for Egypt is likely if President Hosni Mubarak doesn't leave, predicted a scholar from Egypt who now oversees Illinois State University's libraries. People will stay in the street for days," said Sohair Wastawy, who was chief librarian at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina/The New Library of Alexandria in Egypt for six years before coming ISU's library dean in June.
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... Administration, 1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3428. Fax comments to (703) 518-63..., at NCUA's Central Office, 6th Floor, Law Library, 1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA between the hour...
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I wasn't surprised to read about the demise of the "Imagine No Religion" billboard in Rancho Cucamonga. As a member of both the Freedom From Religion Foundation and American Atheists, I've seen countless instances of religionists - almost always Christians - trying to bully and intimidate into silence anyone who doesn't share their dogma. Let's try : Without religion, the Library of Alexandria wouldn't have been burned. There would have been no Dark Ages. Our scientific knowledge would be vastly more advanced. Humans might have walked on the moon a century sooner. We'd likely have cured cancer, Alzheimer's, AIDS and other diseases.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - A white marble statue of a nude Aphrodite in a playful pose is on display in the antiquities museum of the Library of Alexandria. One story up, sociology major Dalia Mohammed, a devout Muslim covered head to toe, is studying for a spring term paper. The ancient sculpture of the Greek goddess of beauty and the Egyptian student represent contrasting Alexandrias.
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Fantastic and magical libraries haunt certain poetic imaginations. Take the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, for example. This Argentine librarian's imagined Library of Babel was a surreal setting. And the lost library of Alexandria, Egypt, haunts myth and legend. The objects in Basia Irland's visionary book Water Library include vials of liquid, cabinets of objects, and assemblages like Kit for Paddling Through Stars Floating on a Lake, which is composed of handmade linden-wood paddles, constellation charts, aerial photographs, and maps that seem designed to guide us from known terrain on a shamanic or dream journey. Books appear but cannot be read in a conventional manner, because they are composed of soil, salt, and lichen. And there are discarded library books, which look swollen or p...
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It is commonly agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more susceptible to loss than the papyrus and parchment at Alexandria. An estimated 44 percent of Web sites that existed in 1998 vanished without a trace within just one year. The average life span of a Web site is only 44 to 75 days. The gadgets that inform our lives -- cellphones, computers, iPods, DVDs, memory cards -- are filled with digital content. Yet the lifetime of these media is discouragingly short. Data on 5 1/4-inch floppies may already be lost forever; this format, so pervasive only a decade ago, can't be read b...
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IT IS COMMONLY agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more susceptible to loss than the papyrus and parchment at Alexandria. An estimated 44 percent of Web sites that existed in 1998 vanished without a trace within just one year. The average life span of a Web site is only 44 to 75 days. The gadgets that inform our lives - cellphones, computers, iPods, DVDs, memory cards - are filled with digital content. Yet the lifetime of these media is discouragingly short. Data on 5-inch floppies may already be lost forever; this format, so pervasive only a decade ago, can't be read by the ...
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The Georgia Department of Archives has records of who owed money to the Milledgeville (Georgia) Southern Recorder, the Atlanta History Center has an assessment of the worth of the Savannah Republican at the end of the war; and the Local History Library in Alexandria, Virginia, has ledgers showing who paid the Alexandria Gazette for subscriptions and advertising, mostly in the late antebellum period, although the records contain limited information about advertisers and subscribers early in the war.4 Despite the richness of Little's archive - it includes lists of stockholders, letters negotiating the purchase of presses and type, an early financial analysis of the operation, and more letters aimed at recruiting staff - the story of the Conservative's creation has never been told. The pe...
