In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

) ( Library of America, 1987 one-volume, 2005 two-volume ) ISBN 978-1-931082-22-8

) ( Library of America, 1987 one-volume, 2005 two-volume ) ISBN 978-1-883011-53-6

The failure of the system to catch on in North America was partly because of its internal deficiencies but also because the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems were already well established.

In 2008 The Library of America reprinted the entirety of Pillars of Salt in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

Frederick Douglass, Autobiography ( Library of America, 1994 ) ISBN 978-0-940450-79-0

Statue of Francis Bacon in the Library of Congress of the United States of America

The Library of Congress began a multiyear " Celebration of the Book " in July 2012 with an exhibition on " Books That Shaped America ", and an initial list of 88 books by American authors that have influenced American lives.

The Library of America published a volume of Lovecraft's work in 2005, essentially declaring him a canonical American writer.

In 2005 the prestigious Library of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Peter Straub, and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the " definitive edition " of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness ( also including " Supernatural Horror in Literature ").

He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

According to the Harvard University Library, " By the late 19th century, 70 to 90 % of the urban populations of Europe and North America were infected with the TB bacillus, and about 80 % of those individuals who developed active tuberculosis died of it.

) ( The Library of America, 1999 ) ISBN 978-1-883011-68-0

* Audubon's Birds of America, podcast from the Beinecke Library, Yale University

The American Library Association was formed, as well as The American Library Journal, Melvil Dewey published his decimal based system of classification, and the United States Bureau of Education published its report, " Public libraries in the United States of America ; their history, condition, and management.

* John Hessler: The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio, Library of Congress, 2007

Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders and an Autobiography ( Library of America, 2004 ) ISBN 978-1-931082-65-5

Theodore Roosevelt, Letters and Speeches ( Library of America, 2004 ) ISBN 978-1-931082-66-2

Library of America.

We badly need a complete edition of Paine's writings on the model of Eric Foner's edition for the Library of America, but until that goal is achieved, Philip Foner's two-volume edition is a serviceable substitute.

Library of America, 1995.

Titles republished under the Northwestern-Newberry Library include Typee, Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, Omoo, Israel Potter, Pierre or the Ambiguities, Confidence-Man, White Jacket or the World in a Man-of-War, Moby Dick, Mardi and a Voyage Thither, Redburn, Clarel, as well as several volumes of Melville's poems, journals, and correspondence.

In the 1990s a British publisher bracketed Turow ’ s work with that of Margaret Atwood and John Irving, republished in the series Bloomsbury Modern Library.

The 1864 version of his work is shortly to be republished ( 2011 ) by Cambridge University Press as part of the Cambridge Library Collection.

Translated, from the Italian, by Eden and Cedar Paul as Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy ( Hearst's International Library Co., 1915 ; Free Press, 1949 ; Dover Publications, 1959 ); republished with an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset ( Crowell-Collier, 1962 ; Transaction Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0-7658-0469-7 ); translated in French by S. Jankélévitch, Les partis politiques.

Translated, from the Italian, by Eden and Cedar Paul as Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy ( Hearst's International Library Co., 1915 ; Free Press, 1949 ; Dover Publications, 1959 ); republished with an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset ( Crowell-Collier, 1962 ; Transaction Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0-7658-0469-7 )

In 2008, as part of the Library of Chinese Classics, the Clement Egerton version was republished.

His book, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, was republished in 2000 by Texas A & M University Press with a new afterward drawing on tapes released by the LBJ Library.

In 2005, The Collins Library ( an imprint of McSweeney's ) republished Keeler's 1934 classic, The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, a project much pursued by writer and publisher Paul Collins.

The episodes were thought lost until 1988, when 25 of the 26 scripts were rediscovered in the Library of Congress storage and republished.

The novel was republished under its original title by Paperback Library on December 1, 1972.

In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".

It was not until the completion of the Paimio Sanatorium ( 1929 ) and Viipuri Library ( 1935 ) that Aalto first achieved world attention in architecture.

MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

Traveling north to south, the first neighborhood, the " North Residential Neighborhood ", has high-rise residential buildings, a large hotel, Stuyvesant High School, a movie theater and a modern branch of the New York Public Library.

On the day before the Organic Chemistry exam — which is often on the first day of finals — at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying.

* Letter of Andrea Corsali 1516-1989: with additional material (" the first description and illustration of the Southern Cross, with speculations about Australia ...") digitised by the National Library of Australia.

After the Great Chicago Fire, Lyell was one of the first to donate books to help found the Chicago Public Library.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, which records a fragment of this gospel, is usually dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

: The Generic Graphics Library ( GEGL ) was first introduced as part of GIMP on the 2. 6 release of GIMP.

A major mural series depicting the Quest for the Holy Grail was done by the artist Edwin Austin Abbey during the first decade of the 20th century for the Boston Public Library.

The first Director of the Institute was P. K. Kelkar ( after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002 ).

His first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado ; his new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.

At the center of the courtyard he designed a glass and steel pyramid, first proposed with the Kennedy Library, to serve as entrance and anteroom skylight.

Irenaeus ' works were first translated into English by John Keble and published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series.

On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

* 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

The deity name " Oannes " first occurs in texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal ( more than a century after the time of Jonah ) as Uanna or Uan but is assimilated to Adapa, a deity first mentioned on fragments of tablets from the 15th or 14th century B. C.

The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge.

Malatestiana Library – the first Europe an civic library

* 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

Nancy Reagan hosted two 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debates at the Reagan Presidential Library, the first in May 2007 and the second in January 2008.