John Young Cole
Autor de On These Walls: Inscriptions & Quotations in the Library of Congress
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: John Y. Cole [credit: Library of Congress]
Obras de John Young Cole
The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building (1982) 103 copias
For Congress and the Nation: A chronological history of the Library of Congress through 1975 (1978) 16 copias
Capital Libraries and Librarians: A Brief History of the District of Columbia Library Association, 1894-1994 (1994) 6 copias
Reading in America 1978 : selected findings of the Book Industry Study Group's 1978 study of American book-reading… (1979) 3 copias
Book Collectors of Stanford: An Eclectic Eight Who Shaped the Stanford University Libraries (1991) 3 copias
The Library of Congress in perspective: A volume based on the reports of the 1976 Librarian's Task Force and advisory… (1978) 3 copias
Obras relacionadas
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (1988) — Prólogo — 13 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Educación
- University of Washington
Johns Hopkins University
George Washington University - Ocupaciones
- librarian
historian - Organizaciones
- Library of Congress
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - Premios y honores
- Lippincott Award (2000)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 29
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 520
- Popularidad
- #47,760
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 34
The story of Ezra Pound being selected for the first Bollingen Prize is priceless, however.
''The Library announces that its Fellow in American Letters have awarded the first Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound for his book The Pisan Cantos. The Fellows take cognizance of the public knowledge that Pound is under indictment for treason and committed to an institution for the insane, stating that they "are aware that objections may be made to awarding a prize to a man situated as is Mr. Pound." On August 19, the Joint Library Committee recommends that the Library "cancel all arrangements for the giving of prizes and making of awards." Librarian Evans announces the Library's immediate compliance.''
Also note, that while a couple of Librarians of Congress were replaced with changes in the party of the President, there was not a specified term until Carla Hayden, the first woman as well as the first African American to hold the post was appointed. Typical.… (más)