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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

Selected Readings

"An Exchange on Mother Goose
From the New York Review of Books

Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good

Camelot Project - University of Rochester

Chris Dodge - Street Librarian

Daemons in Mythology

Dante's Digital Inferno
Featuring the illustrations of Gustav Doré

Fake Authenticity: An Introduction
from Hermenaut

Herr Mannelig
Traditional Swedish folk song

The Great Cat Massacre (Workers Revolt)

Knowledge for Sale: Are America's public libraries on the verge of losing their way?

The Lies of George W. Bush
Where were the Democrats five years ago?

Malleus Maleficarum, 1486 A.D.
"Hammer of the Witches" -- Notorius handbook used during the European witch hunts. (Give the writer credit for having a vivid imagination.)

Nag Hammadi Library - The Gnostics

Peasants Tell Tales: Reading Fairy Tales as Cultural Histories

Philip Pullmann interview from Powell's Books

Post-modernism and the Left
by Barbara Epstein

Progressive Librarian

Project Gutenberg

Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
Sir James George Frazer's cultural chauvinism is tiresome, but at the time that this was originally published (1890), The Golden Bough was a groundbreaking study.

A Short Interview with Jack Zipes

The Taxil Hoax

A Thousand and One Nights and a Night
The Complete text of the Arabian Nights, with multiple translations

Vegetal and Mineral Memory: The Future of Books -- Umberto Eco speaking at the New Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)