Elaborate history of the library from its very beginnings in the ancient libraries of Babylon and Alexandria, ancient Greece, early China and Renaissance England to some of the greatest contemporary institutions: the Royal Society of London, the Newberry Library, the Smithsonian…
Through the ages, humanity has created, destroyed, rescued, neglected, discovered, stolen, and cherished libraries, and no other institution so perfectly mirrors the human condition in any period of history. The Library tells the story of libraries and of the changing form and f…