As a service to visitors to the GLOW website, we’ll be featuring books and materials related to the GLOW episodes. Some will be for purchase while others will simply provide richer background information about the items discussed in specific episodes. This posting has to do with an elegant facsimile volume of one of the “books that changed the world.”
GLOW traveled to London in June 2009 on a scouting trip, visiting some of London’s several great libraries. During the next few days we’ll be posting our impressions of the libraries in which we engaged in preliminary interviews.
For 250 years and into the present, scientists studying the world’s plant kingdom have been sending samples of plants they’ve discovered to Kew (a suburb of London) for identification, preservation and classification. The Library at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew has—in conjunction with this influx of herbarium materials—amassed one of the most comprehensive and important collections of botanical works in the world…
Four million (count ‘em!) books, pamphlets, maps, and serial publications under one library roof. The entire collection is specialized: in the disciplines of economics, political science, and the social sciences. Students crowd into the library and hook up to electronic resources. LSE Faculty have nothing but good things to say about the Library. Librarians are uniformly upbeat and user-oriented. What’s the secret at the Library of the London School of Economics?
The Library of the Royal Society of London is one of the most prestigious scientific libraries in the world. But when GLOW visited in June 2009, its rooms and “hallowed halls” rang out with the sound of children’s and young adults laughter and excitement…
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