Birla
Birla Indian commercial and industrial family of the Marwari or Hindu merchant caste. The best known member of the family was Ghanshyam Das Birla, who became Mahatma
GANDHI's principal financial backer, paying most of the cost of the
ashram (retreat), the Harijan organizations, the peasant uplift campaign, and the national language movement, as well as supporting many other Gandhian welfare projects. It was at Birla House, New Delhi, that Gandhi was killed. The Birla family has continued to manage a successful business empire.
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History of bookbinding as a mirror of society.
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 9/22/2000; 700+ words
; ...Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society. The Panizzi Lectures 1997. London: The British...celebrated Victorian librarian Sir Anthony Panizzi's contributions to the development...given in 1997, the bicentenary of Panizzi's birth, by Dr. Mirjam Foot...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/16/1997; 595 words
; ...Marsden, physician and hospital founder, 1796; Sir Anthony Panizzi (Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi), bibliophile and scholar, 1797; Francis...Parsons, pianist, composer and author, 1847; Sir Edward Marshall Hall, criminal law advocate...
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One-stop Internet shopping: NCSA Mosaic on the Macintosh. (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) (Mac Monitor) (Column)
Magazine article from: Online; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...drink by our attempt to sort digital resources--like Sir Anthony Panizzi's catalogers in the middle of the last century dealing...overwhelmed traditional repositories like the British Museum. Panizzi's staff dealt with this flood of inked paper as best...
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Anniversaries: 18th April 1996
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/18/1996; 569 words
; ...playwright, baptised 1732; Sir Francis Baring, banker...Quental, poet, 1842; Sir George Clausen, painter...conductor and composer, 1882; Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn...architect, 1867; Sir Anthony Panizzi, principal librarian of...
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What Is FRBR?(Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records in libraries)
Magazine article from: netConnect; 4/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...librarians have been using for over 160 years, since Sir Anthony Panizzi, Keeper of the Printed Books at the British Museum...rules to catalog the print collections of the museum. Sir Anthony believed that patrons should be able to find a particular...
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Good and evil in the garden of digitization: google and fair use.
Magazine article from: Searcher; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of national libraries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sir Thomas Bodley can perhaps be credited with the idea of...he established at Oxford in the early 17th century. Sir Anthony Panizzi gave teeth to book deposit in the mid-19th century...
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British Library closing book on celebrated room Intellectuals, writers, political exiles worked there for nearly 150 years
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/24/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...in 1857, designed by the British Museum architect, Sir Robert Smirke, to meet the wishes of its Italian librarian, Sir Anthony Panizzi, who fled to England to escape retribution for his part...
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The new British Museum Library.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 12/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...was established in 1753 as a result of the bequest by Sir Hans Sloane, a distinguished scientist, of his own...reading room, designed by the Librarian at the time, Sir Anthony Panizzi, and his architect Sydney Smirke in the mid-19th century...
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Obituary: Professor Giovanni Aquilecchia
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...richness of the British Museum Library, with its vast array of early Italian editions, many collected by the astute Sir Anthony Panizzi in the 19th century, and the nearby exceptional collections of the Warburg Institute. Aquilecchia also made the...
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Sir Anthony Panizzi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Anthony Panizzi , 1797-1879, British librarian, b. Italy. A political exile, Panizzi settled in England in 1823 and was naturalized...the basis of the museum's catalog. Panizzi designed the circular reading room and...
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Panizzi, Antonio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Panizzi, Antonio (later Sir Anthony ) (1797–1879), born in Italy, fled to England as a political exile in 1823. He became in 1856 principal librarian...
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Edward Edwards
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...assistant from 1839 in the British Museum, he helped Sir Anthony Panizzi draw up the rules for the catalog. Edwards collected...Library from 1850 to 1858. Edwards wrote a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (1865), Memoirs of Libraries (1859...
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British Library
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...government purchased the Harleian Library , which belonged to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton , and groups of manuscripts. The...flourished in the 19th cent. under the leadership of Sir Anthony Panizzi . The library remained a part of the museum until 1973...
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