Borges ' total library concept was the main theme of his widely read 1941 short story " The Library of Babel ", which describes an unimaginably vast library consisting of interlocking hexagonal chambers, together containing every possible volume that could be composed from the letters of the alphabet and some punctuation characters.

* The Library of Babel

" In " The Library of Babel ", Borges contemplates the opposite effect: impoverishment of a text through the means of its reproduction.

In the case of The Library of Babel meaning is hard to find as any coherent works are rare.

The last note to Borges's short story " The Library of Babel " briefly imagines a similar book, and links it to the work of the well-known mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri:

* " The Library of Babel ", a short story which also deals with collecting all the possible permutations of a character string

This view may also be considered present in The Library of Babel, another Borges story.

A story from Lasswitz's Traumkristalle served as the basis for The Library of Babel, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

** The Library of Babel ( 1941 )

In " The Library of Babel ", a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, there is an index of indexes that catalogues all of the books in the library, which contains all possible books.

It includes " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ", " The Garden of Forking Paths ", and " The Library of Babel ", three of Borges ' most famous stories.

* The Library of Babel

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Other stories by Borges that express the idea of infinite texts include " The Library of Babel " and " The Book of Sand ".

In particular, " The Zahir ", " The Book of Sand ", and " The Library of Babel " similarly deal with revulsion in the face of contemplating the infinite.

A fictional philosophical movement is a part of the premise of his story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, and the unnamed narrator of his story The Library of Babel could also be called a fictional philosopher.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

He was recorded by John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941 and ' 42.

Alan Lomax first recorded House for the Library of Congress in 1941.

* Wright, Monte Duane ( 1972 ) Most Probable Position: A History of Aerial Navigation to 1941, The University Press of Kansas, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-79318

* Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 – 1941 Library of Congress, American Folklife Center Online collection of archival sound recordings, photographs, and manuscripts

In 1927 her husband accepted the position as the first Director of The Huntington Library ( 1927 – 1941 ) in San Marino near Pasadena and Los Angeles, California.

In 1941, Jože Plečnik's National and University Library was completed, as one of the major infrastructure projects of the University in the interwar period.

According to Dixon & Godrich ( 1981 ) and Leadbitter and Slaven ( 1968 ), Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress researchers did not record any Delta bluesmen ( or women ) prior to 1941, when he recorded Son House and Willie Brown near Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, and Muddy Waters at Stovall, Mississippi ; however, this claim is disputed as John and Alan Lomax did record Bukka White in 1939, Lead Belly in 1933 and most likely others.

On December 8, 1941, as " Assistant in Charge at the Library of Congress, he sent telegrams to fieldworkers in ten different localities across the United States, asking them to collect reactions of ordinary Americans to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States.

* Ten Years of American Opera Design at the Juilliard School of Music, Published by New York Public Library, 1941.

* Evan Lewis ( 1869 – 1941 ), Los Angeles City Council member < ref name = ServiceConducted >" Councilman Evan Lewis ' Funeral Services Conducted ," Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1941, page 20 < code >< nowiki > Library card required </ nowiki ></ code ></ ref >

The Temple suffered massively during The Blitz in the Second World War ; as well as attacks on 19 September 1940 and 26 September, which destroyed the Library clocktower and the Hall respectively, on 10 – 11 May 1941 the Inn was hit by a series of incendiaries which destroyed the inside of Temple Church, the Hall, the Library and many sets of chambers.

During the Second World War, the Inn was badly damaged during the Blitz in 1941, with the Hall, the Chapel, the Library and many other buildings hit and almost destroyed.

Folklorists who have collected traditional music of Massachusetts include Eloise Hubbard Linscott, whose field recordings from 1938 and 1941 are in the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

From 1940 to 1941, she worked as a special librarian in the cataloging department of the Library of Congress, involved in a project related to alien citizenship.

Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library in January 1941 shortly before it opened.

) Completed by late 1940, the Central Library opened to the public on February 1, 1941.

The original Central Library on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica was opened in 1930 and expanded with WPA funds in 1941.

* Tyson, Moses ( 1941 ) " The First Forty Years of the John Rylands Library " in: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library ; vol.

Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941.

* Aleph, Integrated Library System from Ex Libris Group

Until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, Against Heresies was the best-surviving description of Gnosticism.

Two leaves of a 15th-century copy of the manuscript, called the Troßsche Fragment ( Tross Fragment ), were held in the Berlin State Library, but went missing in 1945.

Library expansion was calculated in 1945 by Fremont Rider to double in capacity every 16 years, if sufficient space were made available.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and in 2001 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

* Library expansion was calculated in 1945 by Fremont Rider to double in capacity every 16 years, if sufficient space were made available.

* " Welcome Ships for Victory " Photograph collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict World War II cargo ship building activities from 1943 to 1945.

* Louise Bogan, fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress ( 1945 )

* Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, deposition by Henryk Tauber in the Polish Courts, May 24, 1945, p. 481 – 502, Jean-Claude Pressac, Pressac-Klarsfeld, 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, Library of Congress 89-81305

The mostly gnostic Nag Hammadi Library, discovered in 1945, also contained one previously unknown hermetic text called The Ogdoad and the Ennead, a description of a hermetic initiation into gnosis that has led to new perspectives on the nature of Hermetism as a whole, particularly due to the research of Jean-Pierre Mahé.

* The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, an academic journal founded in 1945 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

* Roosevelt Presidential Library collection relating to Germany ( Jan. 1944 – Sept. 1944 ), ( Oct. 1944 – Oct. 1945 )

King's diaries assembled after his death missed a single volume for November 10 to December 31, 1945, according to Library and Archives Canada.

Angel in the Forest was published in 1945 to universal acclaim, winning the Guggenheim and Newberry Library awards.

* V-J Day Proclamation, 1945 — from the State Library and Archives of Florida.

In June 1945 the Kutno District Public Library was opened.

* Indian Schools papers, 1929 – 1945, in the Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University

Los crimenes de violencia sexual en el derecho internacional penal de los siglos XX y XXI ( El nuevo orden jurídico internacional a partir de 1945 y su ausencia de perspectiva de genero ) in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

After a short loan to the Library of Congress where he overhauled their processing department, he returned to take up duties as the chief of preparations and ended up as the coordinator of general public services before he left in 1945 to join the Cleveland Public Library system ( CPL ).

The town's literary claims to fame include it being the birthplace of 19th century writer Hesba Stretton ( 1832 – 1911 ), and the first job of poet Philip Larkin was as librarian of Wellington Library from 1943 to circa 1945.

Nancy Pearl ( born January 12, 1945 ) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library.

In 1945, Sir Edward Hulton set up the Hulton Picture Library as a semi-independent operation.

* Beethoven: Quartet no 15 in A minor, op 132 ( rec live December 20, 1945 at Library of Congress ; CD reissue Bridge 9072 A / C ).

She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945.