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The rise and fall of the Great Library of Alexandria
Live Science
The rise and fall of the Great Library of Alexandria ... The famous library in Egypt flourished for six centuries and was the cultural and...
32 months ago
The Perniciously Persistent Myths of Hypatia and the Great Library | David Bentley Hart
First Things
As I write this, the first two of what I expect will be three theatrically morose sighs have just issued from my lips; they're all quite...
174 months ago
Great Library of Alexandria: New and Improved
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Founded in 2002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is the spiritual successor to the Great Library of ancient times, an edifice capable of holding...
75 months ago
History of the Library of Alexandria
Britannica
Most famous library of classical antiquity. It was part of the Alexandrian Museum, a research institute at Alexandria, Egypt.
38 months ago
The Genius Innovation That Made the Great Library of Alexandria Work
Time Magazine
The Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures.
92 months ago
An Interview with Rose Dawson, Director of the Alexandria Library
New America
An interview with Rose Dawson, Director of the Alexandria Library, about the library sit-in of 1939 and efforts to commemorate it.
15 months ago
Alexandria Library Earns Gold Standard of Excellence
The Zebra
The Alexandria Library has earned the Gold Standard of Excellence from the Virginia Public Library Directors Association.
1 month ago
New exhibit celebrates historic Alexandria Library sit-in
NBC4 Washington
A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open...
3 months ago
85 years ago today: Alexandria Library sit-in sought seat at table for all readers
WTOP
“On Aug. 21, 1939, William Evans, Otto Tucker — who was Sam's brother — Edward Gaddis, Morris Murray and Clarence Strange, individually go into...
3 months ago
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
The Atlantic
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria. “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to...
91 months ago