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Salvaging a legacy in Weimar
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International Herald Tribune
11-24-2004
Bent over books once held by Goethe and Schiller, workers in white lab coats brush away ash and creeping mold, doing their best to salvage the centuries-old victims of a recent fire that devastated one of Germany's cultural treasures. About 2,000 books are stacked on tables behind the workers in a large room at the Center for Book Conservation here. The books are a small portion of the 62,000 heavily damaged in a fire at the Anna ...
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Surplus Leaves Students Well Versed; Fairfax School Receives Boxes of Books From Library of Congress
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; ... has been donating almost half of its daily shipments of books, maps, videos and other items to schools, libraries, nonprofit organizations ... enough, as half of the amount was spent on online subscriptions to news programs and encyclopedias. And with the increasing price of ...
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Curator is charged as 30,000 books are 'lost' by French national library.(Foreign News)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: John Lichfield in Paris More than 30,000 books, including 1,000 rare and priceless items, are believed to have been stolen from the French national library in Paris. So chaotic are the library's cataloguing and security systems it is impossible to know when books were stolen. Some may have
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