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...art or all of the manuscript; there were others who furnished documents, pictures, and other data. To them I can only say, "We thank you. " For the librarians and the archivists and their staffs, at the Bishop Museum, at the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society library, at the State Archives, and elsewhere, there must be a special "Aloha. " But to Miss Janet Bell an...

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...nds. 116 -- Promotion Of Immigration. 117 -- Chinese: I. 119 -- Portuguese. 122 -- Pacific Islanders. 126 -- Indians (Asiatic). 128 -- Norwegians And Germans. 133 -- Chinese: Ii. 135 -- Chapter 6. Reciprocity And Hawaii's Population: Immigration: Japanese Vs. Chinese. 142 -- The Gibson Regime And The Labor-Population Problem. 143 -- The Chinese Question. 145 -- Japanese Im...

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...ay exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture foc...

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... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway i... ... The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from ... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn... ...ies that led to his Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amherst helped him divide the entirety of man... ... added another distinguished field for women by creating a corps of women librarians to circulate those books into the hands of the public and then ... ... drawers enabled patrons to find the specific information they sought and librarians to replace loaned books on their proper shelves where other pat... ... FL, to ask their reference desks for help, but the bulk of my queries to librarians have been to Highland Park Public Library staff members under th...

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... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway is ... ...es The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from th... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds o... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn... ...ies that led to his Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amherst helped him divide the entirety of man... ... added another distinguished field for women by creating a corps of women librarians to circulate those books into the hands of the public and then ... ... drawers enabled patrons to find the specific information they sought and librarians to replace loaned books on their proper shelves where other pat... ... FL, to ask their reference desks for help, but the bulk of my queries to librarians have been to Highland Park Public Library staff members under th...

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...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...ope. The teen abortion rate is 3 times that of France and 8 times that of Germany. And while Americans start their sexual experiences only a few mont... ... eye or whether we should turn the other cheek. ―A few years ago in Germany a judge used Koranic law in a case and angered everyone. A German ... ...ved her from the case because the Constitution is the primary standard in Germany. They were backed up by Muslim clerics who stated that the 7 th Ce... ...re indebted than the states. School classes got larger, school nurses and librarians were cut. Parks went without maintenance or were closed. Environ...

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...rship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyright Levy XXIV. The Future of Online Reference XXV. Ol... ...bones about their offerings. Many of them are located outside the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebre... ...he sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Germany or the USA - all combined in one employee in these deprived countr... ... Libraries sought also to extend their archival functions to e- books. But librarians failed to grasp the essential and substantive differences betwee... ...logies developed by geeks and nerds, rather than by marketers, users, and librarians. Physical libraries enjoy great advantages, not the least bein... ...ts by lo-tech libraries. It may turn out to be convergence at its best, as librarians become computer savvy - and computer types create knowledge and... ...shed "publishers" (monasteries), with a few exceptions (e.g., in Augsburg, Germany and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threa... ...arts, and other graphics to their books. Battles fought between publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and fonts (Gothic versus Roman) were ... ...public domain are no longer there. . . Same goes for the United Kingdom. Germany increased their copyright term to more than 70 years back in the 1...

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...e—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of the hard work of building the movem... ... internation- ally. But there are many, many others. The entire community of librarians de- serves our thanks for standing up for free public access t... ... standing up for free public access to knowledge for over two hundred years. Librarians are my heroes. They should be yours, too. Some of the work con... ...lves and, thus, are a highly deceptive form of compensation; the Congress of German Economists resolves: that patents of invention are injurious to co... ...ules of intellectual property right? T o me, a number of my colleagues, some librarians, The Internet Threat 55 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/0... ...e slanted toward American sensibilities, downplaying both anti- Semitism and German expansionism. His solution? T o publish his own English translatio... ...on? T o publish his own English translation, taken direct and uncut from the German edition. He wanted to prove, with Hitler’s own words, that the Uni... ...own words, that the United States had a dangerously distorted version of the German leader. But this is the kind of thing copy- right law forbids and ... ...ange in the number of databases and the number of providers fell sharply. In Germany, the industry added nearly three hundred databases im- mediately ...

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...usband’s going away for a week.” 14 Main Street She was fond of the other librarians; proud of their aspirations. And by the chance of propinquity sh... ...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...ese retired farmers who come here to spend their last days— especially the Germans. They hate to pay school-taxes. They hate to spend a cent. But the ... ...ratically chat- ting with but ruling the Ohioans and Illini and Swedes and Germans who had ventured to follow them. But Westlake was old, almost retir... ...never had one! As a wage-earning spinster Carol had asserted to her fellow librarians that when she was married, she was going to have an allow- ance ... ... simply because their mothers don’t keep them home where they belong. Some librarians may choose to be so wishy-washy and turn their libraries into nu... ...oly of greetings and friendly hands. Sam Clark was no more loyal than girl librarians she knew in St. Paul, the people she had met in Chicago. And tho...

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...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ... ...to its departure. 9 “Everlasting Jew.”—Der ewige Jude—which is the common German expression for “The Wandering Jew,” and sublimer even than our own. ... ... be selected from the best writer in the English language (far less in the German) which, upon a sufficient interest arising, would not furnish matter... ...e all in the habit of calling by the wide name of “the continent,” France, Germany, Switzerland, and Bel- gium) my mother was aware that the most flag... ...ole funds for supporting the proper offices attached to a library, such as librarians, sub-librarians, &c., which of themselves (and without the expre...

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... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...d how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead ... ...many into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead of Germany, the whole of the Low Countries would be in our power. But the King... ...y eyes, by their immense opulence. The library did not satisfy me, and the librarians still less: I was received with much civility, and invited to a ...

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...aining. He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly b... ...enting, and what I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think... ...ow yet whether I can thank him for. He made me know the music of the great German. I used to listen: I could not be- lieve such music could come from ... ...rman. I used to listen: I could not be- lieve such music could come from a German. He followed me about, telling me I was his slave. For some time I c... ...like what you get at the tables of those Erzhogs, as you call ‘em, over in Germany. Simple fare; sound wine! At all events, it won’t hurt you. You’ll ... ...ich is naturally resented, and away flies my book back at the heads of the librarians, hitting me behind them a far more grievous blow. Such is the co...

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...here a short while ago. I ask him if he is up in the aeroplane flying over Germans will he drop the bombs on Germans and he say no, he will not drop a... ... he drop the bombs on Germans and he say no, he will not drop any bombs on Germans.” By this falsehood (such it happened to be) I confess that I was n... ...nch, Monsieur asked me if I would have any hesitation in dropping bombs on Germans? I said no, I wouldn’t. And why did I suppose I was fitted to becom... ...stre was on top of me: “It is impossible to love Frenchmen and not to hate Germans.” I did not mind his triumph in the least. The discomfiture of the ... ...h of course they are” (tone of profound conviction) “you do not detest the Germans?” “Oh, in that case, of course anyone must detest them,” I averred ... ...al which occasionally is affected by clerks and dentists and more often by librarians. If ever I looked upon an hon- est German jowl, or even upon a c...

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...e the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics is not a fact... ...arch. Not one in twenty of the boys of the middle and upper classes learns German or gets more than a misleading smattering of physical science. Most ... ... lassitude and 23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material lead... .... I would as soon put to sea in St. Paul’s Ca- thedral. If I were fighting Germany, I would stow half of them away in the Clyde and half in the Bristo... ...common enemy to weld it to- gether from without. It is too usual to regard Germany as the common enemy. We in Great Britain are now intensely jealous ... ...ings, and it will need very much more than the dis- approval of provincial librarians, the hostility of a few influ- ential people in London, the scur... ...dorse the appointment, and recommend the dismissal of all his four hundred librarians. He would probably try to make the as- sistantship at £100 a yea...

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...ded state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered targets in Djibouti. 84 As early... ...al leader of the 9/11 conspiracy , Mohamed Atta, went online from Hamburg, Germany, to research U.S. flight schools.Targets of intelligence collection... ...e head of his computer operations and weapons procurement, was arrested in Germany. He was the most important Bin Ladin lieutenant captured thus far. ... ...on, and Yemen—they had formed a close-knit group as stu- dents in Hamburg, Germany.The new recruits had come to Afghanistan aspir- ing to wage jihad i... ...ation, the late 1999 arrival in Kan- dahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.The Hamburg group ... ...requent a library in Hamburg to use the Internet.Accord- ing to one of the librarians, in 1999 Shehhi, unprompted, inveighed against America, and boas...

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... master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated children with an... ...nly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limited rang... ...l, and the confusion of reconstruction is world-wide among our vowels. The German w of Mr. Samuel Weller has been oblit- erated within the space of a ... ...ch was Greek at one time to the Roman, such was Latin to the Bohemian, the German, the Englishman or the Spaniard of the middle ages, and such it is t... ... to the Cantonese or the Corean, and English to the Zulu or the Hindoo. In Germany and France, to a lesser degree in Great Britain, and to a still les... ...o equip them is to organize an Association, to work, if possible, with the Librarians, and get this “serious” side of the Libraries, this vitally impo... ...s reprinted separately for five cents, and it is almost all English public librarians and libraries need so far as American history goes. The En- glis... ...i- ography of social and economic science, but it is a mere list for local librarians, and of little use to the uninitiated reader. *In America Mr. Ge...

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...ch that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as the Germans say, —I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with resea... ...galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought, or that librarians are wiser men than others. There are graces in the demeanor of a... ...k of Webster. We conceive dis- tinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German ge- nius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not mee... ...iad, the Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him. How sinks ...