https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr en-us 2018-05-11 03:49:03 UTC 2018-05-12 21:38:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260157987 From 3400-3000 BC people recorded business transactions, records, and rosters of names onto clay tablets. Scribes would establish their value in society and spend their lives recording and copying these records, and making the distribution of information possible. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260157987 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260158490 Leather and papyrus would take the place of clay tablets, being easier to produce and distribute. The Library of Alexandria is founded and becomes the epicenter for information in Egypt. The library contained scrolls borrowed from other libraries, often the copies were sent back rather than the originals. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260158490 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159038 The first bound books were created in monasteries in Europe in the Middle Ages. These monasteries would also swap and lend these books among each other. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159038 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159178 Paper brought from China became the medium on which books were now being written and scribed. Movable type made mass production of books available, and book collecting possible outside of academic and religious institutions. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159178 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159424 European nationalization brought about the designation of national libraries in many counties, with Germany leading the way by designing libraries with processing areas and reading rooms. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159424 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159543 In 1800, legislation passed providing the creation of the first congressional library in the United States-the Library of Congress. It was later authorized as a copyright depository and administrator of copyright law. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159543 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159840 The American Library Association is founded in 1876, beginning significant cooperation in national libraries. The same year the idea of a formalized interlibrary loan process what being pushed. ]]> 2018-05-12 17:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260159840 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260173665 In the 1930's, the microfilming of newspapers began as a concern for preservation grew. During WWII, libraries began using microfilm to preserve documents and records of civilizations. ]]> 2018-05-12 21:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260173665 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260173763 The first standardized ILL request form was introduced in 1952 and allowed libraries to use mail to request materials. ]]> 2018-05-12 21:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260173763 dsigsworth1 https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260173861 More than 72,000 libraries are served by today's OCLC in the United States and around the world. ]]> 2018-05-12 21:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dsigsworth1/lnwtediwklyr/wish/260173861