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February is National Library Lovers’ Month.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
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The simplest one is when supporters of a library simply meet en masse and read their own books. Usually this type of read-in is held at or near the supported library or the targeted legislative body. Indianapolis library lovers organized a read-in during July 2010 to protest drastic budget cuts that would have closed 6 branches. [24]
Documents containing Adobe extended features still carry the PDF base version number 1.7 but also contain an indication of which extension was followed during document creation. [21] PDF documents conforming to ISO 32000-2 carry the PDF version number 2.0, and are known to developers as "PDF 2.0 documents".
NLW has spread to different countries. The first National Library Week of the Jamaica Library Association was held March 6–12, 1966. [7] Libraries Week display in 2017, Skipton Library, UK. Australia's Library and Information Week is organized by the Australian Library and Information Association, and held annually at the end of May. The ...
In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow members of the Junto established the Library Company of Philadelphia. [2] This type of subscription library brought access to books for the residents who paid to become a member. It also served as a model and inspiration for many other libraries that began to spring up throughout the colonies.
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