Library
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Libraries exist to preserve society’s cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and scholarship in this era of digital technology, it’s essential for them to extend those functions into the digital world.
Flat Fact : The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was probably the largest, and certainly the most famous, of the libraries of the ancient world. It flourished under the patronage of thePtolemaic dynasty, and functioned as a major center of scholarship, at least until the time of Rome’s conquest of Egypt, and probably for many centuries thereafter. Alexander, although picking the site and planning the general layout of the city, died before he could take part in the construction of the library or academy that was created in his name.
It was eventually Burned To The Ground
Well now
Flat Fact: The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress and is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books (with the British Library being second at about 14 million books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
Indeed, The Internet comments
Flat Fact: Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Text Archive
Songs of a Sourdough By Robert W. Service (details | pdf) Internet Archive Canada has reached a milestone, in scanning its 200000th book! …60000 books from Library of Congress go online · Web, 150 billion pages …Scanned books only arrow Advanced Search. featuring 23870985 books (including 1164827 with full-text).The Internet Sacred Text Archive: Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web. Luggala: 4,123 pages published
A few snippets. It is Valentines Day. A Festival of Love. Millions of Books have been written about Love, millions of songs (all of them?) have been sung. But what is Love? Shakespeare says:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
So says the bard. I prefer, not prefer exactly, It just gets it right……
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden….
It is better to have loved, and lost, than never to have loved at all
A Library of selected books available at http://Library.Luggala.org Includes The Prophet. These books should be read in the Library and not removed or “Downloaded” Please treat them with respect, do not turn down the corners of a page, do not annotate or underline passages you admire. For the moment the Library is free but we will expect readers to join when this becomes available. Donations of Books are greatefully received. Only books you have ownership of will be accepted. Copyright will not be infringed. Please do not leave books in the grounds as the deer will eat them.
A vast Library…How To Choose? The Only Answer is
“They Caught My Eye…..”
Deer Please Note: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Be Warned: Books contain IDEAS! The Curse of Humankind
- Alaska Sample eBook
- As A Man Thinketh
- Basho HAIKU
- Bhagavad Gita
- Bukowski Rooming House Madrigals
- Descartes
- Dhammapada
- Dorian Gray
- D.H.Lawrence
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot
- The Ethics of Ambiguity [Translation]
- Metamorphosis – A Study Guide
- Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- Moby Dick
- The Third Policeman
- Notes From The Underground
- Ulysses
- The Prophet
- Prajna Parimeter Heart Sutra
- The Quatarmass Script by The Goons
- Stranger In A Strange Land
- The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
- Vonnegut Kurt – Breakfast of Champions
- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Why You Are Not Happy
- William Blake
- The 2009 CIA Directory of World Leaders and Their Ministers
- The Project Gutenberg EBook of Elson Grammer School Literature 1909 [Editors Note : This book is a library in itself with classics too numerous to mention, If you read nothing else, read this]
- People are consuming? > The Most Beautiful Books In The World?
- Now It Can Be Told by Kilgore Trout has been removed as it is considered to contain a very dangerous IDEA that can lead to civil disorder. Please See Breakfast of Champions for a full explanation
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