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The Book of Library World Records

Where can we find the oldest books and manuscripts in the world? What is the name of the largest and smallest book in the world? When was the oldest existing public library in Europe founded? Where can we find the most expensive library and books in the world? What is the name of the largest medical database? When was the first CD-ROM database used in libraries? Where can we find the largest bookshop in Europe, Asia and the Americas? When were the first books printed in English, French, Spanish, and Turkish? Where did Casanova, J.Edgar Hoover and Wolfgang von Goethe work as librarians? Which academic library was the first to install a computerised library catalogue or OPAC?

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These 10 questions are just a few samples of over 500 questions, whose answers can be found in this new exciting book, the first of its kind to be published.

With more than 100 colour photographs from around the world, The Book of Library World Records offers readers amazing, incredible, and fascinating facts and figures about libraries, and the three important things we normally find in them: books, periodicals and, databases. It includes comparative information such as the first, the largest, the oldest, and other miscellanea.

At last a record book that is only about libraries, books and databases.

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Click here for an interesting article on The Book of Library World Records I wrote in 2001.

Godfrey Oswald
May 2002.