Librarianship

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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts 3.49 avg rating — 12,188 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Archival Science
Encyclopedia of Archival Science 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Library Book
The Library Book 3.89 avg rating — 121,029 ratings
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books 3.68 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures 4.07 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All 3.42 avg rating — 4,823 ratings
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Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries
Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge 3.72 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders 3.46 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers
Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google 3.42 avg rating — 936 ratings
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The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History 3.49 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order 4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People
Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People 3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library 3.76 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction 3.76 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
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Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy 4.06 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 3.44 avg rating — 13,713 ratings
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A History of Book Illustration: Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book
A History of Book Illustration: Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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History of Libraries of the Western World
History of Libraries of the Western World 3.72 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books
The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Crystal Crowned (Air Awakens, #5)
Crystal Crowned (Air Awakens, #5) 4.11 avg rating — 23,726 ratings
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The Night Bookmobile
The Night Bookmobile 3.49 avg rating — 6,551 ratings
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Georgia Research: A Handbook for Genealogists, Historians, Archivists, Lawyers, Librarians, and Other Researchers
Georgia Research: A Handbook for Genealogists, Historians, Archivists, Lawyers, Librarians, and Other Researchers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Water's Wrath (Air Awakens, #4)
Water's Wrath (Air Awakens, #4) 4.09 avg rating — 28,017 ratings
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Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History
Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History 3.45 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Earth's End (Air Awakens, #3)
Earth's End (Air Awakens, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 31,395 ratings
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Fire Falling (Air Awakens, #2)
Fire Falling (Air Awakens, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 39,310 ratings
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Air Awakens (Air Awakens, #1)
Air Awakens (Air Awakens, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 60,836 ratings
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Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The RDA Primer: A Guide For The Occasional Cataloger
The RDA Primer: A Guide For The Occasional Cataloger
by: Amy Hart
3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-to-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manual Series (for Librarians))
Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-to-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manual Series (for Librarians)) 3.82 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification 3.22 avg rating — 273 ratings
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The Catalogue of Books from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Persons of the Past
The Catalogue of Books from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Persons of the Past really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Metadata
Metadata 3.58 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Cataloguing Outside the Box: A Practical Guide to Cataloguing Special Collections Materials (Chandos Information Professional Series)
Cataloguing Outside the Box: A Practical Guide to Cataloguing Special Collections Materials (Chandos Information Professional Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books 4.04 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians
Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials: Books
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials: Books really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and Case Studies
Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and Case Studies 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Describing Archives: A Content Standard 3.54 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization 3.18 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers 3.75 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images
Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe 3.44 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Learn Descriptive Cataloging (Library Education Series)
Learn Descriptive Cataloging (Library Education Series) 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Introduction to Metadata
Introduction to Metadata 3.58 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series)
Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series) 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason 3.77 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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Notes on the Care and Cataloguing of Old Maps
Notes on the Care and Cataloguing of Old Maps really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Metadata
Metadata 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature 3.82 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Metadata in Practice
Metadata in Practice 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction 3.19 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries 4.04 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age 3.78 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,310 ratings
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Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge 4.15 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Joy of Cataloging: Essays, Letters, Reviews and Other Explosions
The Joy of Cataloging: Essays, Letters, Reviews and Other Explosions 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good 2.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences 3.97 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity 3.74 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Library: An Unquiet History
Library: An Unquiet History 3.50 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore 3.88 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World 3.94 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible 3.78 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq 4.04 avg rating — 765 ratings
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time 4.10 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 4.04 avg rating — 16,837 ratings
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The Atlas of New Librarianship
The Atlas of New Librarianship 3.82 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Philosophy of Library Classification
Philosophy of Library Classification 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books
The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books 3.91 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World 3.93 avg rating — 386 ratings
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ABC for Book Collectors
ABC for Book Collectors 4.22 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat
Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat 4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century 3.93 avg rating — 599 ratings
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World 4.11 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World
The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World 3.38 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Chicago Under Wraps: Dust Jackets from 1920 to 1950
Chicago Under Wraps: Dust Jackets from 1920 to 1950 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Book: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies)
The Book: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies) 3.52 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Treasures of the Library of Congress
Treasures of the Library of Congress 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts 3.77 avg rating — 84 ratings
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A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts 4.24 avg rating — 516 ratings
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future 3.35 avg rating — 940 ratings
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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making 3.96 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper 3.42 avg rating — 980 ratings
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age 3.73 avg rating — 614 ratings
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What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? (Library of the Written Word, 3)
What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? (Library of the Written Word, 3) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 3.96 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures
Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures 4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World 4.02 avg rating — 405 ratings
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More Making Books By Hand: Exploring Miniature Books, Alternative Structures, and Found Objects
More Making Books By Hand: Exploring Miniature Books, Alternative Structures, and Found Objects 3.92 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read 3.47 avg rating — 853 ratings
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"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron
"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron 3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings
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An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students
An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A New Introduction to Bibliography
A New Introduction to Bibliography 3.73 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms ("^ALooking at" Series)
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms ("^ALooking at" Series) 4.19 avg rating — 134 ratings
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