John Young Cole
Författare till On These Walls: Inscriptions & Quotations in the Library of Congress
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Foto taget av: John Y. Cole [credit: Library of Congress]
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The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building (1982) 102 exemplar
For Congress and the Nation: A chronological history of the Library of Congress through 1975 (1978) 16 exemplar
Capital Libraries and Librarians: A Brief History of the District of Columbia Library Association, 1894-1994 (1994) 6 exemplar
Reading in America 1978 : selected findings of the Book Industry Study Group's 1978 study of American book-reading… (1979) 3 exemplar
Book Collectors of Stanford: An Eclectic Eight Who Shaped the Stanford University Libraries (1991) 3 exemplar
The Library of Congress in perspective: A volume based on the reports of the 1976 Librarian's Task Force and advisory… (1978) 3 exemplar
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Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (1988) — Förord — 13 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1940
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Utbildning
- University of Washington
Johns Hopkins University
George Washington University - Yrken
- librarian
historian - Organisationer
- Library of Congress
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - Priser och utmärkelser
- Lippincott Award (2000)
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Statistik
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- 29
- Även av
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 517
- Popularitet
- #48,026
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 5
- ISBN
- 34
The story of Ezra Pound being selected for the first Bollingen Prize is priceless, however.
''The Library announces that its Fellow in American Letters have awarded the first Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound for his book The Pisan Cantos. The Fellows take cognizance of the public knowledge that Pound is under indictment for treason and committed to an institution for the insane, stating that they "are aware that objections may be made to awarding a prize to a man situated as is Mr. Pound." On August 19, the Joint Library Committee recommends that the Library "cancel all arrangements for the giving of prizes and making of awards." Librarian Evans announces the Library's immediate compliance.''
Also note, that while a couple of Librarians of Congress were replaced with changes in the party of the President, there was not a specified term until Carla Hayden, the first woman as well as the first African American to hold the post was appointed. Typical.… (mer)