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Dresden Codes. A pre-Columbian Maya book of the eleventh or twelfth century of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá.


Dresden Codes. A pre-Columbian Maya book of the eleventh or twelfth century
of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá. This Maya codex is believed to be a copy
of an original text of some three or four hundred years earlier. It is the
oldest book written in the Americas known to historians


in the biographical section intermingled with all biographical contributions, for who can not say that all library work contributes to human development?

The strongest work done in the class on behalf of human rights was a three person collaboration that extensively revised the Wikipedia entry, “Librarianship and human rights in the United States.”[1] The article now opens with this powerful statement:


Librarians, both individually and collectively, have a long history of engagement with human rights issues as they pertain to libraries and the communities they serve: against censorship and discrimination; and in support of the rights of immigrants, cultural minorities, poor people, the homeless and unemployed, people with disabilities, children and young adults, the LGBT community, older adults, those who are illiterate, and the imprisoned. Librarians also protect human rights by developing
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  1. Librarianship and human rights in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarianship_and_human_rights_in_the_United_States. See article history for dates in spring 2014.