
The Library
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- 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
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