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Libraries, Passageways to the Universe

November 6, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Without libraries, I would not be the person I am today. Without free access to books that libraries (and taxes) provide, I would have been bereft indeed as a child. My family only owned a couple of copies of the Bible foisted on my father by Baptist grandmother and volumes of novels from the Book of the Month Club, in highly excerpted form. For me, as you can surmise, libraries represented Paradise. I spent many hours in the public library, […]

Categories: Art, Books, Libraries, Photography • Tags: Architecture, Books, Libraries, Meditations, Photography

Old Cookbooks Online — Some New Goodies

August 22, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

165 of Virginia Tech’s Newman Library’s collection of thousands of rare and antique cookbooks just went digital. Most of the books stem from the late nineteenth century and many illustrate the trend toward scientific home making, or home economics. Browse the entire list HERE. Some of the highlights include: Edward Smith’s Foods. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. Maria E. Rundell. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Founded Upon Principles of Economy. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. (Mentioned in […]

Categories: Bibliographies, Books, Cookbooks, Libraries • Tags: Cookbooks, Home Economics, Libraries, Online Cookbooks, Virginia Tech

Library Door, St. Gall (Photo credit: Steven Wagner)

The Random Herbalist: Libraries and Monastic Gardens

August 1, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Another reason why the Internet is so fantastic — here is a catalog of the manuscripts available in the monastery at St. Gall in Switzerland. (You need to be able to read German, or at least have a good dictionary at hand!) In 1875, the Catholic Administration (Katholische Konfessionsteil) of the Canton of St. Gall commissioned Gustav Scherrer (1816-1892), a scholar and professor from St. Gall, to draw up the first printed catalogue of the manuscripts kept at the Abbey […]

Categories: Libraries, Monasteries • Tags: Libraries, manuscripts, Monasteries, Monks

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