The Library
An Illustrated History
Published on 9. July 2009
328 pages
978-1-62873-322-8 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished?and the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day. The Library invites you to enter the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and modern-day America, and speaks to the book lover in all of us. Incorporating beautiful illustrations, insightful quotations, and many marvelous mysteries of libraries?their books, patrons, and keepers?this book is certain to provide you with a wealth of knowledge and enjoyment.
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Stuart A. P. Murray is the author of more than forty books. He is a former journalist as well as a book editor. He was the founding editor of Bantam's Stagecoach series of Westerns, writing under the pseudonym Hank Mitchum. Murray is a principal in Lily Book Productions, a book publisher and packager in Red Hook, New York. He lives in Petersburgh, New York.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- New Foreword to the 2019 Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Ancient Libraries
- 2 European Libraries of the Middle Ages
- 3 Asia and Islam
- 4 Europe's High Middle Ages
- 5 Renaissance to Reformation
- 6 People of the Book
- 7 War and a Golden Age
- 8 The Library in Colonial North America
- 9 The Library in the Young United States
- 10 The Library Movement
- 11 Organizing Knowledge
- 12 Libraries, Librarians, and Media Centers
- Libraries of the World
- Bibliotheque Nationale de France
- British Library
- Austrian National Library
- National Library of Russia
- Russian State Library, Moscow
- Library and Archives of Canada
- Toronto Public Library, Canada
- Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Québec, Canada
- Royal Library of Belgium
- Royal Library of the Netherlands
- Hong Kong Public Libraries, China
- Italian National Libraries
- New York City Public Libraries
- New York Public Library
- Queens Public Library
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Boston Public Library
- Chicago Public Library
- Los Angeles Libraries
- County of Los Angeles Public Library
- Los Angeles Public Library
- National Library of China, Beijing
- Shanghai Library, China
- German National Library
- Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- London Library
- National Library of Australia
- National Diet Library of Japan
- Jewish National and University Library, Israel
- National Library of Brazil
- Jagiellonian University Library, Poland
- National Library of Iran
- National Library of Pakistan
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
- National Library of India
- Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany
- Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam
- Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland
- Kederminster Library, England
- Huntington Library, United States
- Folger Shakespeare Library, United States
- American Antiquarian Society, United States
- Newberry Library, United States
- Cambridge University Library, England
- National Library of Medicine, United States
- University of Texas, Austin, United States
- Harvard University Libraries, United States
- Bodleian Library, England
- The Vatican Library, Rome
- The Clark Library, United States
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries, United States
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- For Further Reading
- Index
