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Two hundred libraries in Belarus suffered damage during the war. T. Roschina calculated that 83 per cent of the libraries' collection were plundered, stolen or destroyed. 600,000 of those volumes were subsequently found in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland after the war, but a million other volumes, including rare and old printed volumes, have not been returned.
During World War II, Japanese military forces destroyed or partly destroyed numerous Chinese libraries, including libraries at the National University of Tsing Hua, Peking (lost 200,000 of 350,000 books), the University Nan-k'ai, T'ien-chin (totally destroyed, 224,000 books lost), Institute of Technology of He-pei, T'ien-chin (completely ...
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List of landmarks destroyed or damaged by climate change; List of destroyed libraries; List of libraries damaged during World War II; List of demolished buildings and structures in Columbus, Ohio; List of demolished buildings and structures in New York City
Credit - Getty Images. 2024 has seen many devastating budget cuts to libraries. Earlier this year, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams proposed to cut more than $58 million from the city’s libraries.
Thomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 – June 28, 2005) was an American historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later became a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.
There were around 30 different pack horse libraries who served around 100,000 different people in the mountain areas. [9] The libraries also served around 155 schools in these counties by 1937. [4] Breathitt County was an early pack horse library location, opening in 1935. [27] Campbellsville, Kentucky opened a pack horse library on November 3 ...
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