Behind
the Stacks
News from the Reference Library
by Zoe
Greetings from the Reference Library! If you're an armchair explorer, then Pan's Library is the place for you! In our Library you can explore the world from Argentina to the Far East, from darkest Africa to the vast expanses of Canada. If the exploration of history is more to your taste, our library can guide you from ancient Mesopotamia to the 20th century. New discoveries await you in Pan's Library from ancient Egypt or the Celtic world, and in the Sciences.
The Bodleian Library
Not only is the Bodleian Library Oxford University's main research library, it has nine other dependent libraries. These specialize in law, the sciences, and the histories of the United States, Japan, India, Africa, and the Far East. The Bodleian Library in opened in 1602 with only 2000 books. Today the combined libraries boast over 9 million items.
Now you know.
Featured Section
Geographica is Panhistoria's Maproom, a growing collection of maps of just
about any place you can think of, from many eras of history.
Explore Australia or the Arctic Ocean, or pay a visit to Malaysia or Central America.
Enhance your study of India during the British Raj or ancient Greece with maps which depict these eras.
Spice up your novel posts with accurate references to places in Colonial America or Imperial Russia with Geographica's map links.
In the Compass Points forum, you can read about the English explorer, Henry Hudson, or learn about mapmaking in the ancient world.
You can find all this and more in Pan's Reference Library!
Pan's Library is Your Library!
Take some time today to explore Pan's Reference Library. Our library has many articles which may serve as background for your novel writing. If you would like to add something of your own, jump right in! Every member of Panhistoria automatically belongs to our Library, and all of you are encouraged to post.
Be sure to check by the main Reference Library page, accessed from your jump menu, each week for the spotlight, the featured post and news of current discussions. You can keep up with all the latest posts by using the Reference Library Daily Index, found on the main Daily Index page.
As always, your Librarians are here to help and encourage you. Please feel free to direct your questions or ideas to any of them. Just look for the purple icon on your IM Panel.
The Last Word
A little library growing each year is an honorable part
of a man's history.
Henry Ward Beecher, American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer (1813-1887)
