Create Your Own Story @ Your Library

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Create Your Own Story _at_ Your Library
The History of Libraries
Ancient Libraries 1450 CE 2009 CE
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School Library Media Month ? April 2011?Library
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The Renaissance ca. 1450 CE

• The printing press was developed by Johannes
  Gutenberg.
• Each letter was made on the end of a separate
  bar.
• Printers assembled the individual letters to form
  a page in a book.

Source Gale Grolier Multimedia
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The Renaissance ca. 1450 CE

• The first book that Johannes Gutenberg printed
  was the Bible.
• Before the printing press, it took a person
  working alone seven years to copy the complete
  Bible
• The printing press reduced the cost of printing
  books so that ordinary people, not just the
  wealthiest, could afford books.

Source Gale World Book Reference Center Online
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The Renaissance ca. 1450 CE

• To find out about the amazing invention of the
  printing press, go to Destiny.
• Type in the subject Printing - History or
  Gutenberg.
• Click the Subject icon to find out how many books
  about the printing press are available in your
  school or other schools.

Project Gutenberg - www.gutenberg.org
Source Destiny
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Libraries 1500s 1600s CE

• University libraries in different countries began
  to open.
• Bodleian Library Oxford University
  , England
  Library opened Nov. 8, 1602 CE

http//www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley
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Libraries 1500s 1600s CE

• University libraries in different countries began
  to open.
• Harvard University Massachusetts
  Library opened 1638 CE

Source Grolier Multimedia
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Libraries 1700s CE

• Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company
  of Philadelphia, a subscription library.

Source World Book
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Libraries 1800 CE

• The Library of Congress, now one of the worlds
  largest libraries, was founded by an Act of
  Congress in Washington, D. C.

Source http//www.flickr.com/photos/uartsmfaba/20
35273715/
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Libraries The White House 1851 CE

• Abigail Fillmore, wife of President Millard
  Fillmore (1850 - 1853), established a library,
  still present today, in an upstairs bedroom of
  The White House.

Source http//www.whitehouse.gov/kids/tour/librar
y.html
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Libraries Andrew Carnegie 1881 1919 CE

• Andrew Carnegie made a fortune in the steel
  industry.
• Mr. Carnegie retired in 1901 and spent the
  remainder of his life giving away his money to
  worthy causes.
• He and his corporation built more than 2,500
  libraries and gave away more than 350,000,000.

Source SIRS Knowledge Source
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Libraries Andrew Carnegie ca. 1960s CE

• The greatest period of growth for school
  libraries
• AND
• the Information Age began.

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School Libraries Information Age
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Libraries Around the World 2010 CE
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Libraries Around the World 2010 CE
She and friends removed more than 30,000 books
from the Basra Library and stored them in their
home to prevent their destruction in the event
that a bomb hit the library facility.
Even in times of war, libraries continue to
survive. Alia Muhammad Baker believed that books
are more precious than mountains of gold.
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Libraries Around the World 2010 CE
Source www.loc.gov
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Our journey continued
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Germany
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Germany
Why was the printing press, invented by Johannes
Gutenberg, so revolutionary to the printing of
books?
Source World Book
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From Germany, we travelled to
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United Kingdom (England)
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United Kingdom (England)
The Bodleian Library opened in 1602 at what
English university?
Source World Book
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From England we travelled to
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United States (Massachusetts)
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United States (Massachusetts)
What university library opened in 1638 and is
considered the oldest library in America?
Source World Book
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Our journey is finished! Together we travelled to
10 countries!
China Iraq Egypt Greece Turkey France Italy German
y England United States
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