Biblioteca Unixploria

LIBRARY STATISTICS

We currently have 14.111 titles in our stacks.

If you want more statistical tidbits, please visit our library page at Librarything.

Our National Library is a depository for knowledge and a laboratory for education and imagination.

Biblioteca Unixploria currently holds more than 14.000 books and magazines on all possible topics. However, we favor acquiring books closest to our nation's history, culture, and way of thinking.

Books about history, exploration and collecting are standard on our shelves. We are also obliged to collect and care for the royal heritage, including archives from our royal families. Important documents relating to our nation are also available through Biblioteca Unixploria through our specialized research collection, The Crown Archives.

If you are a citizen of our great nation, you can contact the Chief Librarian for a guided tour of the physical library and its collections. A citizen can, of course, also check out books from the readers.

The MDS Spectrum is a representation of a library based on the distribution of books within MDS classes. Each colour represents a set of books within a top-level category. MDS, The Melville Decimal System, is a free version of OCLC's Dewey Decimal System. For more information, please visit our charts and graphs.

BIBLIOSEUM - COLLECTING THROUGH THE PAGES

Our librarians pick the most beautiful books in our collections and share curious recounts about the text, its context, and beyond.

Please peek inside our most beautiful books in our lavishly illustrated blog, Biblioseum.

READ, WATCH, LISTEN

Our blog about books, movies, and music is a voyage of exploration in textual realms.

We give insight into the books we have read, the movies we have watched, and the music we have listened to recently.

We also discuss art because everything you can interpret through language is text in context.

FACT FILES

Fact Files are our research archives, where you can find categorized articles, images, and references to topics of interest to our patrons.

You will find articles from websites, newspaper clippings, book references, and photos of everything from Astrophotography to Xenization.

DANGEROUS BOOKS

First, let me state the obvious: many Unixplorians are avid book collectors and have been since they could read. We love the book itself, not only the texts and illustrations that enable us to travel to distant worlds, real and imagined.

Our love for books also leads us to explore many new collecting areas. Our latest project here at Biblioteca Unixploria is to obtain "dangerous books," considered infamous for one reason or another. Titles that fall into this category are extreme political pamphlets or pseudo-scientific books.

It's scary and fascinating at the same time when you are browsing through the pages of a book that you, in retrospect, know were used as a tool to brainwash people to follow a leader whose legacy now is considered anything but flattering. The images below are two examples of such books.

Millions of copies of Adolf Hitler's infamous biographical book "Mein Kampf" ('My Struggle') were printed. This particular copy was printed in 1938 by the official publishing house of the Nazi party in Munich.

Mao Zedong, former chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, is in political terms the opposite of Hitler although their methods were similar. Mao formed modern China with the help of propaganda and guns. His famous 'Little Red Book' is a collection of quotations by the leader himself. This edition is an original Chinese copy from 1967.

Folksonomy

Folksonomy is an additional way to classify the content in a library. It's a widely used online user-generated system for categorizing and organizing content into different categories using metadata such as electronic tags.

Biblioteca Unixploria uses folksonomy for easy access to our books by giving each book a few tags to describe the book's contents.

Our staff uses a different classification system based on a hierarchical knowledge system. Our system is a mix between UDC, DDC, and SAB.

Read more about the classification system used by our staff here. [SE]

View our tags by visiting our library catalogue.

FORBIDDEN BOOKS

Did you know that the Catholic Church maintained a list of prohibited books?

The list was an attempt from the Vatican to discourage people from reading heretic literature, both fictional and non-fictional works. The list is entitled Index Librorum Prohibotorum, and the first edition was issued in 1559. The latest edition of the Index was printed in 1948. Pope Paul VI abolished the Index in 1966.

The Catholic Church has not been the only institution with intentions of censoring - or, even worse, burning - books that they perceived as dangerous for the public to read. Numerous regimes and individuals would like nothing better than to ban free thinking.

THE CROWN ARCHIVES

The Crown Archives are one of our special collections. Our task is to collect and research everything about the royal house of Oxenmyr.

We collect books, articles, portraits, and ephemera. We preserve our royal heritage for posterity.

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LIBRARY STATISTICS