Pasker Library
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Pennville [81, 85]
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Pasker Library
Description
A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books.
This collection and services are used by people who choose not to — or cannot afford to — purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or who require professional assistance with their research.
History
The library at Pasker is recognised to be one of the richest medieval libraries in the world. It is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of early medieval books from the German-speaking part of Europe. As of 2004, the library consists of over 160,000 books whereof 2200 are handwritten and 500 are over 1000 years old. Lately the Stiftsbibliothek has launched a project for the digitisation of the priceless manuscript collection.
The library also preserves a unique 9th-century document, known as the Plan of St. Gall, the only surviving major architectural drawing from the roughly 700-year period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the 13th century. The Plan drawn was never actually built, and was so named because it was kept at the famous medieval library, where it remains to this day. The plan was an ideal of what a well-designed and well-supplied monastery should have, as envisioned by one of the synods held at Aachen for the reform of monasticism in the Frankish empire during the early years of emperor Louis the Pious (between 814 and 817).
Barricade Policy
Extremely Heavily Barricaded (No outside entry) as per Pennville Suburb_Mutual_Barricade_Plan
Current Status
Activity at Pasker Library is at a minimum.
