{"id":7900,"date":"2008-08-14T01:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T01:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_canterbury_praises_lambeth_palace_librarys_back_a_book_scheme\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T01:35:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T01:35:28","slug":"archbishop_of_canterbury_praises_lambeth_palace_librarys_back_a_book_scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7900","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury praises Lambeth Palace Library&#39;s &#39;Back-a-Book&#39; scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ACNS) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams has praised the generosity of contributors to the \u201d\u02dcBack-a-Book\u2019 scheme, which encourages members of the public to sponsor the repair of books in Lambeth Palace Library, the principal library and record office for the history of the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop said: \u201cLambeth Palace Library has an unrivalled collection of books relating to the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. The Library greatly appreciates the generosity people are showing by participating in \u201d\u02dcBack-a-Book\u2019 to ensure that these books can be preserved for future generations\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, 30,000 books from the recently closed Sion College Theological Library were moved to Lambeth Palace Library, almost 90% of which required essential repair from bomb and flood damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/digest\/index.cfm\/2008\/8\/13\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-praises-Lambeth-Palace-Librarys-BackaBook-scheme\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ACNS) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams has praised the generosity of contributors to the \u201d\u02dcBack-a-Book\u2019 scheme, which encourages members of the public to sponsor the repair of books in Lambeth Palace Library, the principal library and record office for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7900\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}