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Libraries and Librarians of the World

Author: Amjad Ali

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ISBN 8170004829
Year of Publication 2006
Binding HardBound
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Language English
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Over the last many centures, human beings innovated different methods of transferring information to distant places with ever-improving quality and efficiency. They brought Information Revolution, which transformed the entire world into a Global Village. It took place in varied periods of history and the most notable of them was set off by invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century. Information Revolution has now taken a new form of "electronic interdependence", an era when electronic media replace the culture producing new social organizations. The electronic technologies of telephone, radio, television, computers and Internet and their interpretation by renowned scholars in social context have caused Information Explosion. Traditional understandings of space and time have been collapsed by the current speed of electronic transmissions. This book provides information on the lies of the ten great thinkers writes, scientists and engineers of all times who pioneered Information Revolution. It encompasses their biographical accounts, innovations and individual contribution to the society.

Preface
SECTION-A : LIBRARIES
1. Alexandria Library
2. Alexandria Digital Library
3. Archives of India Labour
4. Asa Archives
5. Asad National Library
6. Asiatic Society Library, Kolkata
7. Auckland University of Technology Archive
8. Austrian Public Library
9. Baker Library
10. Bancroft Library
11. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
12.Berkely Digital Library
13. Berlin State Library
14. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma
15. Bibliotheque nationale Centrale de France
16. Bibliootheque nationale du Quebec
17. Bodleian Library (Oxford)
18. Boston Public Library
19. British Library
20. Brooklyn Public Library
21. California Digital Library
22. Cambridge University Library
23. Cecil H. Green Library
24. Celsus Library
25. Central Library, ISI Kolkata
26.Chester Beatty Library
27. Chetham's Library
28. Connemara Public Library
29. Consortium of University Research Libraries
30. Delhi Public Library
31. Delhi University Library System
32. Developing Library Network
33. Dhaka University Library
34. Die Deutsche Bibliothek
35. Digital South Asia Library
36. Digitale South Asia Library
37. Digitale Bibliothek Information und Medien, Germany
38. Dr. Zakir Husain Library
39. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
40. Folger Shakespeare Library
41. Free Library of Philadelphia
42. Garrison Library
43 German Library
44. Global Digital library
45. Global Library Services
46. Goethals Indian Library & Research Center
47. Government Oriental Manuscripts
48. Grand Ayatollah Mar'ashi Najafi Public
49. Hakim Moahmmed Said Central Library
50. Hilandar Research Library
51. Huntington Library
52. India Office Library, London
53. Indian Digital Library of Engineering Science and Technology
54. Indian Institute of Advanced Study Library, Simla
55. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Archive
56. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Library
57. Institute of Asian Studies Library, Chennai
58.Institute of Manuscripts Library, Baku
59. Institute of Museum and Library Services
60. Institute of Oriental Studies Library
61. International Coalition of Library Consortia
62. Internet Public Library
63. Iraqi House of Manuscripts, Baghdad
64. ISI0-BC Library Mysore
65. J R D Tata Memorial Library
66. Jamia Al Azhar Library, Cairo
67. Jawaharlal Nehru University library, New Delhi
68. John Rylands University Library, Manchester
69 JSTOR , journals, Digital libraries
70. Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture and heritage, Dubai
71. Kedermister Library
72. King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh
73. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands
74. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna
75. LeHigh University Library, United States
76. Library and Archives of Canada
77. Library of Ashurbanipal
78. Library of Congress
79. Library of Sir Thoman Browne
80. Library of the British Museum
81. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
82. Macmillan Information Super Library
83. Maulana Azad Library
84. Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University
85. Murdoch University Library
86. Mysore University Library, Mysore
87. Nalanda Digital Library
88. Nalanda University Library
89. National Agricultural Library
90. National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
91. National Archeological Database "National Archeological Database
92. National Archives and Records Administration
93. National Archives and the National Library of Bangladesh
94. National Archives of Australia
95. National Archives of India
96. National Archives of Japan
97.National Diet Library
98. National Information Standards Organisation
99. National Lending Library for Science and Technology
100. National Libraries of South Africa
101. National Library and Archives of Egypt, Cairo
102. National Library of Albania
103. National Library of Australia
104. National Library of Bangladesh
105. National Library of Bulgaria
106. National Library of Canada
107 National Library of China
108. National Library of Czechoslovakia
109. National Library of Denmark
110. National Library of Education
111. National Library of Greece
112. National Library of Guiana
113. National Library of India
114. National Library of Iran
115. National Library of Ireland, Ireland
116. National Library of Medicine
117. National Library of Nepal
118. National Library of New Zealand
119. National Library of Norway
120. National Library of Pakistan
121. National Library of Russia
122. National Library of Scotland
123. National Library of Wales
124. National Science Library of India NISCAIR
125. National Szechenyi Library of Hungary
126. New York Public Library (NYPL)
127. New Zealand Digital Library
128. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
129. Oviatt Library
130. Oxford Digital Library
131. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
132. Rampur Raza Library
133. Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
134. RLG's Archival Resources
135. Robarts Library
136. Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia
137. Royal Asiatic Society
138. Royal Asiatic Society Library, Mumbai
139. Royal Library of Copenhagen
140. Salar Jung Museum and Library, Hyderabad
141. Sarasvati Bhavan Library, Benaras
142 Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tanjore
143. Sayajirao Gaekwad Library, Banaras Hindu University
144. Scholarly Information Services/Library
145. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
146. Seattle Central Library
147. State Library of South Africa
148. State Library of Victoria
149. Suleymania Library
150. Suzzallo Library
151. Swedish Royal Library
152 Swiss National Library
153. Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul
154. Troy Public Library
155. Turkish National Library
156. University of Cambridge Library
157. University of Illinois Library
158. University of Punjab Library, Lahore
159. University of Sydney Library
160. Vatican Library
SECTION B: LIBRARIANS
1. Ahmed Rami
2. Ainsworth Rand Spofford
3. Antoine Alexandre Barbier
4. Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzia
5. Archibald MacLeish
6. Anastasius Bibliothecarius
7. Ashurbanipal,
8. Bashiruddin, S
9. Benjamin Franklin
10. Benjamin Peirce
11. Berners -Lee, Timothy
12. Bonnie Nardi
13. Callimachus
14. Charles Pickering
15. Charles Ammi Cutter
16. Charles Wilkins
17. Dana, John Cotton
18. Daniel J. Boorstin
19. David Hume
20. Dehkhoda, Ali Akbar
21. Demetrius
22 Ed Greenwood
23. Edmund William Gosse
24. Edward Augustussee
25. Edward Singleton Holder
26. Eratosthenes of Cyrene
27. Francis Hayman
28. Friedrich Sylburg
29. Fuat Seizgin
30. Gabriel Naude
31. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
32. Gary Price
33. George Watterston
34. Giacomo Casanova
35. Henri Marie la Fontaine
36. Herbert Putnam
37. Hypatia of Alexandria
38. Imtiaz Ali Khan
39. Ina Coolbrith
40 Issac Casaubon
41. James Douglas Pearson
42. James Hadley Billington
43. Jan Gruter
44. Johann Albert Billington
45. Johann Matthias Gesner
46. John James Beckley
47. John James Beckley
48. John Russell Young
49. John Silva Meehan
50. Jorge Luis Borges
51. Justin Winsor
52 Kaul H. K.
53. Kaula, Prithvi Nath
54. Kenneth MacLen Glazier Sr.
55. Khuda Bakhsh Khan
56. Larry Page
57. Laura Welch Bush.
58. Lawrence Quincy Mumford
59. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
60. Li Dazhao
61. Ludovico Antonio Muratori
62. Ludwig Bechstein
63. Luther H. Evans
64. Lynne Brindley
65. Major Robert Odell Owens
66. Mangla, P. B
67. Mao Zedong
68. Margaret Leiteritz
69. Marianne Moore
70. marshal McLuhan
71. Melville Dewey
72. Michael Lorenzen
73. Nancy Pearl
74. Newbery, John
75. Patrick Magruder
76. Paul Otlet
77. Philip Larki
78. Pierre Francois le Courayer
79. Raj Reddy
80. Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita
81. Sanford Berman
82. Schumacher Sanford Berman
83. Sergey Brin
84. Seymour Lubetzky
85. Thomas James
86. Thomas Louis Berger
87. Wallace Breem
88. Wilhelm Lexis
89 William Henry Bliss
90. William Jones

Dr. Amjad Ali (Ph. D. in Library and Information Science) started his service carer from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. A year later, he joined the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as Librarian ( in charge of the Library Resource and Documentation Unit). He was also engaged as Academic Counselor with IGNOU. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King abdulaziz City for science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also selected as Librarian (on panel ) for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently, he is a Council Member of the India Library Association. Dr. Amjad Ali has published 20 books and a number of research papers. He is a recognized Guide for M. Phil and Ph. D. in Library and Information Science. The other books authored by him and brought out by the Leading publishers of the countryu include:

1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library and Information Science (3vols.)
2. Information Technology and Libraries (Library and Paperback editions)
3. Reference Service and the Digital Sources of Information (Library and Paperbackeditions)
4. Learning in the Information Age
5. Infomedia in Higher Education
6. Oriental libraries of India and their Collections
7. Glossary of Library and Information Science (2vols)
8. Oriental Manuscripts Worldwide
9. Digital Libraries in the Making
10. Encyclopedia of Information Technology (2vols).
11. Digital Libraries in Higher Education
12. Working with the News Media
13. Libraries and librarians of the World
14. Builders of the Global Village

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