Raging through the stacks, the fire reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling homage to a beloved institution вЂ“ our libraries. The life and times and near-death experience of the Los Angeles Public Library was a story that felt urgent to tell, and gave me a chance to pay tribute to these marvelous places that have been such an essential part of my life. The next thing I knew, I was investigating the largest library fire in the history of the United States. I never stopped loving libraries, but they receded in my mind, and seemed like a piece of my past.ДЄnd then I started taking my own son to the library, and I was reminded instantly and vividly of how much libraries had meant to me, how formative they were to my love of reading and writing, and how much they mean to us as a culture. The very air in the library seemed charged with possibility and imagination books seem to have their own almost human vitality.But over time, I had become more of a book buyer than a book borrower, and I had begun to forget how magical libraries are. My mother and I would take regular trips to the branch library near my house at least twice a week, and those trips were enchanted. Metadata is available for consultation on an online catalogue.I grew up in libraries, or so it seems. Materials are available for re-use against a fee, both for commercial and non-commercial uses.

Library of the University of Toronto, Canada Genealogical Society of Utah, United States Library of the Unviersity of British Colombia, Canada

Library of the University of Washington, United States Library of the Unviersity of California, Berkeley, United States Nearly 2,870,000 images, drawn from the above librariesвЂ™ important rare Chinese books have been digitized and incorporated into the digital images database. Regarding the international digitalization project, since 2005, NCL has been cooperated with Genealogical Society of Utah., Library of Congress of the United States, Library of the University of Washington, Library of the University of California Berkeley, Library of the University of Toronto, BibliothГЁque nationale de France, and Library of the University British Columbia. The вЂњDigital Image DatabaseвЂќ includes two parts: one is the scanned images of NCLвЂ™s rare books collection the other is the NCLвЂ™s international collaborations of the digitalization project of Chinese rare books.ДЇor the former one, over 10,000 titles of rare books published before 1795 were digitized and made available to the public through the libraryвЂ™s Digital Images Database. Since 2001, The NCL has initiated the digitization project aiming at preserving rare books and providing public access.

Type of Project: The documents come from a range of collections aruond the world, but have in common the fact that they represent rare Chinese works. The вЂњDigital Image DatabaseвЂќ includes two parts: one is the scanned images of NCLвЂ™s rare books collection the other is the NCLвЂ™s international collaborations of the digitalization project of Chinese rare books. вЂ‹ Summary: Since 2001, The NCL has initiated the digitization project aiming at preserving rare books and providing public access.

Library books images