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Ruppelt

Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte(n)

Olms,  2007, 232 Pages

ISBN 978-3-487-13429-1

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englisch"Books and libraries," writes Georg Ruppelt, "are wonders - they are wonders because they depict, in the smallest or comparatively smallest of spaces, the world as it is, as it was, and as it will (possibly) be, but also as it should be and as it could be. Books and libraries are repositories for the spirit of the real world as well as for the many worlds of the imagination. They comprehensively hand down human creativity, in all its diversity and beauty, in its depravity and cruelty, in its light and in its darkness. Anyone who wants to, but can make use of this miracle book and library and participate in it." From his encounter with an American traveling library in 1954 to the present as director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover, books and libraries have decisively shaped the professional and private life of Georg Ruppelt, who was born in Lower Saxony on October 3, 1947. In addition to his fundamental essays on the history of books and libraries, the volume contains contributions that draw attention to the fact that there is much to discover even in rather trivial areas of the book world and that one can never be sure of surprises of a positive kind. Thus, the volume deals with book thieves and book abusers, strange cases of censorship, the history of the Universal Library of the Reclam publishing house, which has become an indispensable part of the German cultural and educational landscape, it deals with camouflage writings against National Socialism, books of 1945, the beginning of the newspaper, old kitchen literature, and finally also library history - from the first library in the Ancient Near East to the modern multimedia library of our days.