Research Catalog

Title

The library : an illustrated history / Stuart A.P. Murray ; introduction by Donald G. Davis, Jr. ; foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes.

Author

Murray, Stuart, 1948-

Publication

New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub. ; Chicago : ALA Editions, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-
• American Library Association publisher.

Description

x, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), music, ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

The history of libraries from ancient to modern times is presented through a review of the types of documents stored, the structures themselves, the way they have been managed, and the important part they have played in every culture around the world.

Subject

• Amerika Haus Berlin Video Lending Library
• Libraries > History
• Libraries > Pictorial works
• Libraries > history

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• History
• Pictorial works
• Einführung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The ancient libraries -- European libraries of the Middle Ages -- Asia and Islam -- Europe's High Middle Ages -- Renaissance to Reformation -- People of the book -- War and a golden age -- The library in colonial North America -- The library in the young United States -- Libraries across America -- Organizing knowledge -- Libraries, librarians, and media centers -- Libraries of the world.

ISBN

• 9781602397064 (alk. paper) :
• 1602397066 (alk. paper) :
• 9780838909911 (ALA ed.)
• 0838909914 (ALA ed.)

LCCN

^^2009012126

OCLC

• 277203534
• SCSB-11866819

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library