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Bibliothèque Nationale de FranceMost important library in France and one of the oldest in the world. The nation's first royal library, the Bibliothèque du Roi (“King's Library”), was established under Charles V (r. 1364–80) but later dispersed; another was established under Louis XI (r. 1461–83). From 1537 the library received a copy of every French publication. It was moved from Fontainebleau to Paris in the late 16th century and opened to the public in 1692. It acquired its current name in 1795, and its collection was expanded through Revolutionary appropriations and Napoleon's acquisitions. In 1995 it moved to a new facility with a controversial design; this facility now houses all its books (more than 12 million), periodicals, and magazines. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 137 color plates distinguish Candida Hofer Libraries, beautifully capturing seats of knowledge around the world from the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York to the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, the Villa Medici in Rome and others. Both structures, like the Beinecke and the Morgan and the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (old and new) and the New York Public Library and the Deutsche Bucherei in Leipzig, stood in the exhibition as emptied monuments, relics of an era that believed in the instantiation of knowledge and its collective pursuit, only to see both--knowledge and collectivity--dispersed into an endless flow of dematerialized code. A method developed at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France for comparing the results of different Web archiving approaches is described by Julien Masanes. |
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