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...sible, particularly of documents which shed new light on the history of the islands. For this purpose, extensive research has been carried on in the national archives of the United States, Great Britain, and France, and minor investigations have been made in the archives of Belgium and Mexico and in a number of libraries and collections in the United States. Many thousan...

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.... Again, physical fitness is an idea that quickly becomes asocial cause in time of national emergency. So, in terms of group process, ideas frequen... ...in cell (1). Cell (2) depicts nonprofit services rendered by such institutions as libraries, post offices, YMCAs, chambers of commerce, museums, th... ...ey are marketed by nonprofit organizations, the measuring services such as Leading National Advertisers, Inc., count their ad billings in with comme... ...of constituents who hold opposing views. Lobbyists include representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commer... ...e, trade and professional organizations, such as the American Medical Association, National Rifle Association, American Petroleum Institute and labor... ...ily) socialist countries portraying political leaders in the effort to enhance the nationalist image. There too, are posted photos of outstanding co... ..., the sheet maker pays the Met royalties of more than $200,000 a year" (p. 171). Libraries similarly have broken out of their traditional role as b...

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...the role that the library has played. Any city that has had a great impact on learning has had a great library behind it, fueling that learning. Libraries date back to 1900 BC in the Sumerian city of Nippur. Nippur’s library held tens of thousands of inscribed clay tablets. These tablets themselves dated as far back as 2600 BC and included mathematical tables and alma...

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...till set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. -- 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories.-Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and...

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...s were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously a... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ... (Professor Hart points out that paper‘s low cost made it possible for libraries not only to afford to stack more books but also to produce inexp... ...the very wealthy could afford them. Books were still so precious that libraries linked them to desks with metal chains to prevent theft. One had... ...from place to place in search of manuscripts they might copy in scattered libraries could now afford to have copies of books sent to them. Before... ... at all. By the fourteenth century, a patriotic desire for a complete national Bible had arisen. “Poor priests” followed Wycliffe Foremost am... ...er printed, generated ―the germs of that opinion which … made Henry V the national hero and the struggle of Lancaster and York the theme of a nation... ...otype came into use. That number continued to grow for decades. Pioneer national printers union was powerful Ironically, although two compositor... ... a limit on the maximum output per man per day. The ITU was the oldest national organizer of American labor. No other union managed so quickly an...

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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...nculcates and parades. He thinks very ill of the atmosphere of parlours or libraries. Wisdom keeps school outdoors. And he has the art to recommend th... ... would have been difficult to select for a start in life. Not even a man’s nationality was certain; for the people of Paris there was no such thing as... ...ry way. There must certainly be some mistake. Had not he himself made anti-national treaties almost before he was out of his nonage? And for the matte...

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... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...lopment has rendered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its co... ...ned outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, and in international competi... ...al culture superseded local communities, and in international competition, national economies have been continually forced to grow and centralize; the... ...ministrative and cultural technosystems that no longer adapt to a local or national environment, but the environment is adapted to suit their requirem... ...ing the international culture, for it to invest in information technology, libraries, sport and the arts and generally in areas that bring new creativ...

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...astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The... ... biology and the human genome was supported in part by a CEER grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy (P5... ... appropriate culture to be produced this year, or turning the entire path of national innovation policy over to the government, intellectual property ... ...older—are called “orphan works.” They make up a huge percentage of our great libraries’ holdings. For example, scholars estimate that the majority of ... ...ult to know exactly who owns the copy- right (or copyrights) on a work, many libraries simply will not reproduce the material or make it available onl... ...... ..., though that brain has been dust for more than a century and a half. I love libraries. I love the mushroom smell of gently rotting paper, the flaky cr... ...nd utilitarian strands suffuse even “the sacred rights of authors.” So, on a national level, we have rejected or dramatically limited the natural righ... ...vers in a number of other countries, including Britain, concluded that their national patent systems were doomed. Various proposals were made to repla...

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...atters, mends the clothes, and pays the bills. Nita sketches, reads at the libraries, and talks at the table d’hote, like a strong-minded woman, as sh... ...e.” “Get in, I say,” cried Jock, who was making demonstra- tions with the “national weapon” much as if he would have liked to lay it about their shoul...

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..., is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their ... ...tion would infallibly produce minds filled with the truth. 5. Education as National and as Social. As soon as the first enthusiasm for freedom waned, ... ...situation identified the movement for a state-supported education with the nationalistic movement in political life—a fact of incalculable significanc... ...the civic function was identified with the realization of the ideal of the national state. The “state” was substituted for humanity; cosmo- politanism... ...e. The “state” was substituted for humanity; cosmo- politanism gave way to nationalism. To form the citizen, not the “man,” became the aim of educatio... ...ies, biographies, books of travel, scientific treatises, on the shelves of libraries. The imposing stupendous bulk of this material has un- consciousl...