library

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/12/05/amazing_libraries_from_around_the_world_in_the_book_reflections_libraries.html?wpsrc=fol_fb

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories^[1] that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (sic)^[2] The subscribing member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database. https://www.worldcat.org

wto ilibrary https://www.wto-ilibrary.org/ 

service providers
- Follett Corporation is a Westchester, Illinois-based company that provides a variety of educational products to schools, colleges, and public libraries through its subsidiaries.Follett Corporation was founded in 1873 when Charles M. Barnes opened a used book store in his Wheaton, Illinois home.^[1] Three years later, Barnes moved his business, now named C. M. Barnes & Company, to Chicago where he opened a store at 23 LaSalle Street. Here, he sold new and used textbooks, stationery and school supplies. Charles Wolcott Follett (1883–1952) joined the company in 1901 as a stock clerk. The following year, Charles Barnes retired and his son, William, became president. The company had now evolved into a wholesaler, selling used books throughout the Midwest and as far away as the Oklahoma Territory. In 1908, the company was reorganized as C. M. Barnes–Wilcox Company when John Wilcox, William Barnes' father-in-law, became the company's primary shareholder. Four years later, in 1912, C. W. Follett became vice president and a shareholder of the company. In 1917, William Barnes sold his remaining interest in the company to John Wilcox. Later that year, Barnes moved to New York where he partnered with G. Clifford Noble and founded Barnes & Noble. The following year, with Wilcox nearing retirement, C. W. Follett took over management of the company and it was once again renamed, this time as J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. John Wilcox died in 1923 and the following year, C. W. Follett and his wife, Edythe, purchased the company. During the next two years, C. W. Follett's three oldest sons—Robert Duncan (Bob), Garth and Dwight—joined the family business. C. W.'s youngest son, Laddie, who was still in grade school, joined the company in 1930. In 1925, Dwight founded the Follett Publishing Company. In 1930, R. D. Follett founded the Follett College Book Company and began wholesaling used textbooks to professors and college bookstores. The following year, R. D. established the company's first retail bookstore on a college campus outside of Chicago, and in 1940, Garth Follett created Follett Library Book Company. Laddie Follett ran the company's original business – Wilcox & Follett – from 1952 until 1986. When C. W. Follett died in 1952 at the age of 70, Dwight Follett succeeded his father as chairman. The company continued to grow and was renamed Follett Corporation in 1957,^[4] which it is still known by today. In the mid-1970s, Dwight began to prepare for his retirement and Dick Litzsinger, R. D. Follett's son-in-law, was elected president and chief executive officer. In 1979, Dwight retired and Robert J. R. Follett was named chairman. Follett Publishing sold its trade publications in 1979 to New Century Publishing; the remainder of Follett Publishing was sold to Esquire Inc. In 1994, Robert J. R. Follett retired and Dick Traut, R. D.'s son-in-law, was elected chairman. The following year, Loyola University Chicago named Follett Illinois Family Business of the Year. 

• Integrated Library Automation System (ILAS)

• users

• shenzhen library 

• [ningxia tushuguan zhi] ningxia library since 2004

• https://www.hdschools.org/en/ningbo/lesson/primaryschool/4

history

- https://www.quora.com/Would-information-that-was-contained-in-the-Great-Library-of-Alexandria-be-mind-blowing-to-the-average-American  Nearly every city in the ancient Mediterranean world had at least one library. Many upper-class citizens in the ancient world also had private collections of scrolls. The Library of Alexandria even had a rival: the Library of Pergamon, which held a massive collection of scrolls.


USA
- The Morgan Library & Museum – formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library – is a museum and research library located at 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which included manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings, as well as his collection of prints and drawings. The library was designed by Charles McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead and White and cost $1.2 million. It was made a public institution in 1924 by J. P. Morgan's son John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., in accordance with his father's will.

• Among the more famous manuscripts are the Morgan Bible, Morgan Beatus, Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Farnese Hours, Morgan Black Hours, and Codex Glazier. 
• https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-secular-medieval-manuscripts Pic of black dyed manuscript in Morgan Library NY. With silver, gold and expensive paint pigments.

- elibrary

• digital public library of america https://dp.la/
• http://ebooksforlibraries.com/
• https://dome.mit.edu/
• internet archive  https://archive.org/

Uk
- legal instrument

• The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (c 28) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which regulates the legal deposit of publications in the United Kingdom. The bill for this Act was a private member's bill. This Act was passed to update the legislation on legal deposit to reflect the digital age. The previous provisions covering legal deposit in the United Kingdom were under the Copyright Act 1911. They covered published paper products of almost all types, excluding only ephemera such as diaries and bus timetables. By the beginning of the 21st century many publications appeared in electronic form, either exclusively or in addition to their print form. A voluntary set of rules for deposit had been drawn up a few years earlier but it was felt that the additional force of statute was required to ensure the British national published record remained complete. As under the previous legislation there are six libraries entitled to printed works. The British Library is entitled to a copy of every printed work published in the United Kingdom. A publisher must send a copy to the British Library within a month of the work being published. The copy sent to the British Library must be of the same quality as the best copies published in the UK at the time. The other five libraries, the Bodleian Library, the Cambridge University Library, the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, the National Library of Wales and the National Library of Scotland are not automatically entitled to be sent a copy of the printed works. 

• The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013 No. 777 

• The National Library of Scotland Act 2012 strengthens the role of NLS in safeguarding and sharing knowledge for current and future generations. This Act replaces the 1925 National Library of Scotland Act.

Uk and ireland
- http://copac.jisc.ac.uk


Russia
- virtual

• http://lib.ru

- gigapedia/library.nu (shut down)

Germany
- goethe institut virtual library
http://www2.onleihe.de/goethe-institut/frontend/mediaList,0-0-0-102-0-0-1-2004-400001-0-0.html#titlelist


Portugal
- virtual

• http://www.maxmat.pt

egypt

- library of alexandria

• https://www.quora.com/Would-information-that-was-contained-in-the-Great-Library-of-Alexandria-be-mind-blowing-to-the-average-American   We should think of the Library of Alexandria as being in some sense similar to the Library of Congress; it was the largest and most prestigious library in the ancient world, but it was far from the only one. If the Library of Congress spontaneously caught fire and most its collections were destroyed, that would be tragic, but very little knowledge would actually be lost, since copies of most of the books that would be destroyed are held in other libraries across the world.The Library of Alexandria was built during the early Hellenistic Period (lasted c. 323 – c. 31 BC) to serve the needs of Greek scholars. As such, its collection mainly focused on Greek literary works. We actually have a pretty good idea of what kinds of works it contained because the scholar Kallimachos of Kyrene (lived c. 310 – c. 240 BC) compiled a massive catalogue of all the works in the Library of Alexandria’s collection known as the Pinakes, which has often been described as the first library catalogue. Only fragments of the Pinakes have been preserved, but the main categories of works seem to have been oratory, history, laws, philosophy, medicine, lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, and epic poetry. The lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, and epic poetry categories seem to have been quite large judging from surviving fragments. The medicine category, by contrast, is barely attested by a single fragment. Nonetheless, it seems to have existed.one person left a comment under an answer I wrote on Quora listing all the amazing things that he thought must have been included in the Library of Alexandria’s collection. His list is fairly typical of what most people seem to think the Library of Alexandria contained. Below, I have responded to all the items on his list, assessing how plausible it is that Library of Alexandria could have contained such works. The items on his list are written in quotation marks and my responses are written in italics:
• “Records of Egyptian Explorers, Exploration and expeditions to Inner Africa, Europe and even the Americas and Beyond” —The part about Egyptian explorations into inner Africa is certainly correct, since we know the Greek geographer Eratosthenes of Kyrene (lived c. 280 – c. 194 BC), who was a head librarian at the Library of Alexandria, had access to information about inner Africa, which he probably got from records of Ptolemaic elephant-hunting expeditions. The part about Egyptian explorations in the Americas is certainly wrong, since we have absolutely no evidence to suggest the ancient Egyptians ever visited the Americas or had any knowledge whatsoever about the Americas.
• “Interaction with China and India, records of this would have had to have been in Alexandria” —The part about interactions with India is certainly correct, since we know the ancient Greek diplomat Megasthenes (lived c. 350 – c. 290 BC) spent extensive time at the court of Chandragupta Maurya and wrote a book about India titled Indika. There was almost certainly at least one copy of this book in the Library of Alexandria, but only fragments of it have survived. We know that there were other copies of this book outside of Alexandria in antiquity, though. It is less likely that there was extensive accurate information about China in the Library of Alexandria, since the Hellenistic Greeks had only limited contact with China. Any information about China in the Library of Alexandria probably would have been mostly rumors and hearsay.

china
- 一九零九年宣統元年，清室決定修繕內閣大庫，修繕前，張之洞奏請成立圖書館，將大庫內的圖書留存一部分精品放入保存。奏請批准，同時批示其他無用的全部焚毀。要處理的書籍檔案，放在故宮的空場上堆積如山。羅振玉是學問家也是溥儀的老師，看到隨手翻閱，覺得這些書都很珍貴，絕不是「無用舊檔」，而是近代史上十分少見的稀世史料，燒了太可惜，奏請不要燒毀，倖免於難。民國二年，北洋政府教育部接收了這批書籍，放進歷史博物館。三年後博物館搬遷，書籍再進行整理。只見數十人每人拿一根木棍。將滿地的書籍隨意亂撥，還算整齊的收起，其他統統裝入大麻袋，一共裝了八千個麻袋，重十五萬餘斤，全部扔掉、以廢紙破爛賣掉或者焚燒。還是羅振玉出面收購下來，得以保存。一九二四年，一心想着「重登大寶」的溥儀，知道做皇帝復辟需要大量金錢，籌措經費只有一個方法，把宮裡最值錢的字畫古籍古董，運出宮外。他以賞賜的名義，精中取精，挑最上品的珍品往外拿。書籍的宋版、元版、明版、五朝字畫，司馬光《資治通鑑》的原稿......經時五個月，盜運連續不斷。溥儀身邊的帝師都是老學究學問家，見此情景，知道不拿白不拿，以「借」的方式，又盜走一大批。自此，貯藏在昭仁殿，所謂金匱石室中的大部分珍本流失宮外。溥儀認為有了這些寶貝，就算不能登基，流亡海外也一世不愁。大批珍品絕版古籍先存放在天津，後來跟隨他運去東北滿洲。日本投降時，溥儀被蘇軍追逐，倉惶逃往大栗子溝，人都顧不上哪還顧得上書，極其珍貴的頂級古籍圖書全部遺失，這次是再也找不回來了。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/05/01/b04-0501.pdf

macao
- http://www.macaudata.com/


Hk
- http://library.judiciary.gov.hk
- http://hk.korean-culture.org/hk/932/board/676/read/102660
-康文署新書當廢紙
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20140727/00176_012.html