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32,000 m 2 (344,445 sq ft) Design and construction. Architect (s) Horia Maicu [ ro] Engineer. Panaite C. Mazilu [ ro] The House of the Free Press ( Romanian: Casa Presei Libere ), known under Communist rule as Casa Scînteii, 'House of The Spark (newspaper)', is a building in northern Bucharest, Romania, the tallest in the city between 1956 and ...
It began with an initial stock of 3,400 volumes of books and periodicals. The collection grew to 7,264 volumes in 1899, 31,080 volumes in 1914, and 91,000 volumes in 1944. In 1949 (after its reorganization on 12 July 1948 as the Central Library of Bucharest University), the collection contained 516,916 volumes; in 1960, about a million; and ...
The Library of Congress Classification ( LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries, while most public libraries and small academic libraries use the Dewey Decimal ...
The Fall 1969 issue of the Whole Earth Catalog. The Whole Earth Catalog ( WEC) was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews.
The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.
Catalogue raisonné. A catalogue raisonné (or critical catalogue) is a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist either in a particular medium or all media. [ 2] The works are described in such a way that they may be reliably identified by third parties, and such listings play an important role in authentication.
The Guide Star Catalog is an online catalogue of stars produced for the purpose of accurately positioning and identifying stars satisfactory for use as guide stars by the Hubble Space Telescope program. The first version of the catalogue was produced in the late 1980s by digitizing photographic plates and contained about 20 million stars, out ...
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