Encyclopedia of Library History
Encyclopedia of Library History

Author: Wayne A. Wiegand

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 1135787506

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First Published in 1994. This book focuses on the historical development of the library as an institution. Its contents assume no single theoretical foundation or philosophical perspective but instead reflect the richly diverse opinions of its many contributors. This text is intended to serve as a reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students interested in library history, for library school educators whose teaching requires knowledge of the historical development of library institutions, services, and user groups, and for practicing library professionals.

Memory's Library
Memory's Library

Author: Jennifer Summit

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0226781720

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In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 1142

ISBN-13:

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