Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World.
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays, ed. Edward C. Kirkland (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962).
Long Overdue: A Library Reader, ed. Alan Taylor (London and Edinburgh: The Library Association Publishing and Mainstream Publishing Company, 1993).
Thomas Carlyle, letter dated 18 May, 1832, in The Letters of Thomas Carlyle, ed. Charles Eliot Norton (London: Macmillan, 1888).
Joseph Frazier Wall, Andrew Carnegie (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Quoted in John K. Winkler, Incredible Carnegie (New York: Vanguard Press, 1931).
Thomas Morrison, "Rights of Land," unpublished manuscript quoted in Peter Krass, Carnegie (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2002).
Quoted in Wall, Andrew Carnegie.
Krass, Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie, speech at Grangemouth, Scotland, September 1887, quoted in Burton J. Hendrick, The Life ofAndrew Carnegie (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1932).
Quoted in Krass, Carnegie.
Quoted in Winkler, Incredible Carnegie.
Krass, Carnegie.
Quoted in George S. Bobinski, Carnegie Libraries (Chicago: American Library Association, 1969).
Krass, Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie, Round the World (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884).
John Updike, "I Was a Teen-Age Library User," in Odd Jobs (London: Andre Deutsch, i992).
Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, i984).
H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Fourth Series (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924).
Quoted in Bobinski, Carnegie Libraries. the library as shadow
Archibald MacLeish, "Of the Librarian's Profession," in A Time to Speak (London: Faber, 1941).
Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq (London: George Allen & Unwin,
1964).
David Diringer, The Book before Printing (New York: Dover, 1982).
Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World.
Escolar, Historia de las bibliotecas.
Jean Bottero, Mesopotamie. L'ecriture, la raison et les dieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1987).
Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World.
He was also the celebrated author of a treatise on the prostitutes of Attica.
Escolar, Historia de las bibliotecas.
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Schocken, 1984).
Brodsky, "To Please a Shadow," in Less Than One.
Eduardo Anguita and Martm Caparros, La voluntad: Una historia de la militancia revolucionaria en la Argentina 1973-1976, Volume II (Buenos Aires: Norma, 1998).
Varlam Chalamov, Mes bibliotheques, trans. Sophie Benech (Paris: Editions Interferences, 1988).
"Tiene hijos que lo vieron quemar sus libros," in German Garcia, La fortuna (Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 2004).
Elisabeth Rosenthal, "Don't Count the Pope among Harry Potter Fans," in The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 16—17 July, 2005).
William Blake, "The Everlasting Gospel" a.I.13, in The Complete Poems, ed. Alicia Ostriker (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1977).
Luciano Canfora, La Bibliotheque du Patriarche: Photius censure dans la France de Ma^arin, trans. Luigi-Alberto Sanchi (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2003).
See Leo Lowenthal, "Calibans Erbe," in Schriften IV(Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984).
The same story is told by the fourteenth-century Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun, but applied to the Islamic conquest of Persia. According to this version, when General Sa'd ben Waqqas entered the conquered kingdom, he found large numbers of books and asked Omar Ibn al-Kdattab if he should distribute this loot among the faithful. Omar replied, "Throw them into the water! If they hold a guide to the Truth, God has already given us a better one. And if they hold nothing but lies, God will have rid us of them." That, says Ibn Khaldun, is how we lost the knowledge of the Persians. In Ibn Khaldun, Al-Muqaddima: Discours sur l'histoire universelle (Paris: Sindbad, 1967-68).
Thanks to Irving Wardle for suggesting this poem by A.D. Hope, in Collected Poems 1930-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, i972).
William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru (orig. 1843—1847) (New York: Random House, Modern Library, i986).
Jacques Lafaye, Albores de la imprenta: El libro en Espana y Portugal y sus posesiones de ultramar (siglos XV—XVI) (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2002). A maravedi was worth
i4 shillings.
Richard E. Greenleaf, Zumarragay la Inquisicion mexicana 1536-1543, trans. Victor Villela (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1998).
See Miguel Leon Portilla, Elreverso de la conquista (Mexico: Editorial Joaqum Motiz, 1964).
Diego Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espanay Islas de la Tierra Firme, I: Introduction, quoted in Tzvetan Todorov, La conquete de l'Amerique (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1982).
Tacitus, Annales, trans. after Burnouf, and annotated by Henri Bornecque (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1965).
Eche, Les bibliotheques arabes publiques et semi-publiques en Mesopotamie.
A large number of the Corvina books were spared because they had been stored in the royal castle of Buda, which the Turks found it unseemly to burn down. See Csaba Csapodi & Klara Csapodi-Gardonyi, Bibliotheca Corviniana (Budapest: Magyar Helikon, 1967).
Johannes Pedersen, Den Arabiske Bog (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, i946).
Le Monde (Paris, 4 September, 1995).
Lawrence Donegan, "Anger as CIA homes in on new target: library users," in The Observer (London, 16 March, 2003).
Richard F. Tomasson, Iceland: The First New Society (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980).
Joseph Kahn, "Yahoo helped Chinese to prosecute journalist," in The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 8 September, 2005).
the library as shape
Tom Stoppard, The Invention ofLove (London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1997); Act I.
Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy ofSeneca.
"Un bibliothecaire est toujours un peu architecte. Il batit sa collection comme un ensemble a travers lequel le lecteur doit circuler, se reconnaitre, vivre." Melot, La sagesse du bibliothecaire.
Angelo Paredi, A History of the Ambrosiana. trans. Constance and Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame, IN: University Press of Notre Dame, i983).
Johannes Duft, The Abbey Library of Saint Gall (St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 1990).
Simone Balaye, La bibliotheque nationale des origines a 1800 (Geneva: Droz, 1988).
The objection was made by Count Leon de Laborde, quoted in Bruno Blasselle and Jacqueline Melet-Sanson, La bibliotheque nationale, memoire de l'avenir (Paris: Gallimard, 1991).
Blasselle and Melet-Sanson, La bibliotheque nationale.
P.R. Harris, The Reading Room (London: The British Library, i986).
Ibid.
169 William E. Wallace, Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).