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Eléments d'hygiène hospitalière et techniques d'isolement hospitalier
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ISBN: 2800900083 Year: 1973 Publisher: Alsemberg Paris Québec Editions scientifiques européennes Maloine Edisem

The man who loved books too much : the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession.
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ISBN: 9781594488917 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Riverhead Books

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Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the county. Yet unlike most thieves, who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for the love of the books. Perhaps equally obsessive, though, is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" driven to catch him. Sanders, a lifelong rare book collector and dealer turned amateur detective, will stop at nothing to catch the thief plaguing his trade.


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Lost books : reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe
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ISBN: 9789004311817 9789004311824 9004311815 9004311823 Year: 2016 Volume: 46 34 Publisher: Brill

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Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in contemporary documents to books that cannot now be located. In this volume leading specialists in the field explore different aspects of this poorly understood aspect of book history: classes of texts particularly impacted by poor rates of survival; lost books revealed in contemporary lists or inventories; the collections of now dispersed libraries; deliberate and accidental destruction. A final section describes modern efforts at salvage and restitution following the devastation of the twentieth century.

Library : an unquiet history.
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ISBN: 0393325644 9780393325645 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Norton

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Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian at Harvard and a gifted narrator, gives a colourful, fast-paced tour through the stacks from ancient times to the present. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but also controlled, inspired, shaped, hidden and obliterated knowledge: Battles' spirited journey takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the beginnings of the World Wide Web. Along the way, Battles explores not only how libraries are built but also how they are destroyed, from the neglect and decay of Alexandria (and myth of its burning), to the burnings of scrolls in ancient China, to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish conquerers - and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe by the Nazis and by Bosnian Serbs in the Balkans.


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Où sont les bibliothèques françaises spoliées par les nazis ?
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ISSN: 21146551 ISBN: 9782375461068 2375461061 2375461088 Year: 2019 Publisher: Villeurbanne : Presses de l’enssib,

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L’ampleur des pillages effectués par les forces nazies durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans tous les pays occupés a été révélée à la Libération. Des opérations d’identification et de restitution des livres spoliés ont été mises en œuvre, notamment en Europe occidentale. En mars 2017, un colloque international, co-organisé par le Centre Gabriel Naudé de l’Enssib, posait cette question : où sont les livres spoliés par les nazis ? Une partie des contributions sont rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, plus particulièrement, celles cherchant à localiser quelque 14 000 livres spoliés déposés dans une quarantaine de bibliothèques françaises entre 1950 et 1953 et à en connaître les caractéristiques.

Vandals in the stacks? : A response to Nicholson Baker's assault on libraries.
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ISBN: 0313323445 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Greenwood

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Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper.
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ISBN: 0375504443 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York Random House


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Burning the Books : a History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780674241206 0674241207 9780674271104 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo. He examines both the motivations for these acts -- political, religious, and cultural -- and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process.

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