The Resource The library at night, Alberto Manguel
The library at night, Alberto Manguel
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The item The library at night, Alberto Manguel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The library at night, Alberto Manguel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Inspired by the process of creating a library for his home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought, oral "memory libraries" kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, and the library of books never written.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (373 pages)
- Contents
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- The library as myth
- The library as order
- The library as space
- The library as power
- The library as shadow
- The library as shape
- The library as chance
- The library as workshop
- The library as mind
- The library as island
- The library as survival
- The library as oblivion
- The library as imagination
- The library as identity
- The library as home
- Isbn
- 9780300145212
- Label
- The library at night
- Title
- The library at night
- Statement of responsibility
- Alberto Manguel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Inspired by the process of creating a library for his home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought, oral "memory libraries" kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, and the library of books never written.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Manguel, Alberto
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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- Libraries
- Libraries
- Books and reading
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- Books and reading
- Libraries
- Label
- The library at night, Alberto Manguel
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The library as myth -- The library as order -- The library as space -- The library as power -- The library as shadow -- The library as shape -- The library as chance -- The library as workshop -- The library as mind -- The library as island -- The library as survival -- The library as oblivion -- The library as imagination -- The library as identity -- The library as home
- Control code
- ocn402912357
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (373 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300145212
- Lccn
- 2007937419
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt1128h9
- 49b0f66c-0f9c-4ffb-ae6c-abae5674b577
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)402912357
- Label
- The library at night, Alberto Manguel
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The library as myth -- The library as order -- The library as space -- The library as power -- The library as shadow -- The library as shape -- The library as chance -- The library as workshop -- The library as mind -- The library as island -- The library as survival -- The library as oblivion -- The library as imagination -- The library as identity -- The library as home
- Control code
- ocn402912357
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (373 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300145212
- Lccn
- 2007937419
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt1128h9
- 49b0f66c-0f9c-4ffb-ae6c-abae5674b577
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)402912357
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