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Memory's library medieval books in early modern England / by Summit, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : libraries of memory -- Lydgate's libraries : Duke Humfrey, Bury St. Edmunds, and The fall of princes -- The lost libraries of English humanism : More, Starkey, Elyot -- Reading Reformation : the libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser -- A library of evidence : Robert Cotton's medieval manuscripts and the generation of seventeenth-century prose -- "Cogitation against libraries" : Bacon, the Bodleian, and the weight of the medieval past -- Coda : memories of libraries.…”
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The Hebrew book in early modern Italy

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Marchion in Hebrew manuscripts: state censorship in Florence, 1472 / Nurit Pasternak -- Daniel van Bombergen, a bookman of two worlds / Bruce Nielsen -- The rabbinic Bible in its sixteenth-century context / David Stern -- Sixteenth-century Jewish internal censorship of Hebrew books / Joseph R. Hacker -- Robert Bellarmine reads Rashi: rabbinic Bible commentaries and the burning of the Talmud / Piet van Boxel -- Dangerous readings in early modern Modena: negotiating Jewish culture in an Italian key / Federica Francesconi -- The printing of devotion in seventeenth-century Italy: prayer books printed for the Shomrim la-boker confraternities / Michela Andreatta -- Hebrew printing in eighteenth-century Livorno: from government control to a free market / Francesca Bregoli.…”
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The whole digital library handbook

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- The case against information literacy / Stanley Wilder -- How they view us : perceptions of libraries and information resources -- The public trust / Robert Putnam -- Wagging the tail / Chris Anderson -- Libraries by the tail / Tom Storey -- Phoning home alone / Christine Rosen -- Keystone cops / Bonnie Nardi -- Our computers, ourselves / Sherry Turkle -- Managing the Internet / Marylaine Block -- Growing pains / Sharon Gray Weiner -- Net generation students and libraries / Joan K. …”
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