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] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 26 color illus. 6 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- list of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Crawford, Alice
- Part 1. The Library through Time
- Chapter 1. Adventures in Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries / Hall, Edith
- Chapter 2. The Image of the Medieval Library / Gameson, Richard
- Chapter 3. The Renaissance Library and the Challenge of Print / Pettegree, Andrew
- Chapter 4. From Printing Shop to Bookshelves / Darnton, Robert
- Chapter 5. "The Advantages of Literature" / Allan, David
- Chapter 6. Literature and the Library in the Nineteenth Century / Sutherland, John
- Part 2. The Library in Imagination
- Chapter 7. The Library in Fiction / Warner, Marina
- Chapter 8. The Library in Poetry / Crawford, Robert
- Chapter 9. The Library in Film / Marcus, Laura
- Part 3. The Library Now and in the Future
- Chapter 10. "Casting and Gathering"
- Chapter 11. Meanings of the Library Today / Wilkin, John P.
- Chapter 12. The Modern Library and Global Democracy / Billington, James H.
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index