The Meaning of the Library : : A Cultural History / / Alice Crawford.

From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, exami...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t list of illustrations --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction /   |r Crawford, Alice --   |t Part 1. The Library through Time --   |t Chapter 1. Adventures in Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries /   |r Hall, Edith --   |t Chapter 2. The Image of the Medieval Library /   |r Gameson, Richard --   |t Chapter 3. The Renaissance Library and the Challenge of Print /   |r Pettegree, Andrew --   |t Chapter 4. From Printing Shop to Bookshelves /   |r Darnton, Robert --   |t Chapter 5. "The Advantages of Literature" /   |r Allan, David --   |t Chapter 6. Literature and the Library in the Nineteenth Century /   |r Sutherland, John --   |t Part 2. The Library in Imagination --   |t Chapter 7. The Library in Fiction /   |r Warner, Marina --   |t Chapter 8. The Library in Poetry /   |r Crawford, Robert --   |t Chapter 9. The Library in Film /   |r Marcus, Laura --   |t Part 3. The Library Now and in the Future --   |t Chapter 10. "Casting and Gathering" --   |t Chapter 11. Meanings of the Library Today /   |r Wilkin, John P. --   |t Chapter 12. The Modern Library and Global Democracy /   |r Billington, James H. --   |t Selected Bibliography --   |t Contributors --   |t Index 
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