Libraries and the Enlightenment / Wayne Bivens-Tatum.

"Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher.

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 211 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Enlightenment: a brief introduction
  • Academic libraries and the philosophical Enlightenment
  • Public libraries and the political Enlightenment
  • Universal libraries : dream and reality.