This book, which includes fourteen well-chosen illustrations, describes the crucial role libraries have played throughout history: in ancient Egypt, China, the classical Western world, Islam, and medieval and Renaissance Europe. It continues with the libraries of colonial Americ…
This book, which includes fourteen well-chosen illustrations, describes the crucial role libraries have played throughout history: in ancient Egypt, China, the classical Western world, Islam, and medieval and Renaissance Europe. It continues with the libraries of colonial Americ…
The meaning of the library: a cultural history
"Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--p…
The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives
This book provides practical information about web archives, offers inspiring examples for web archivists, raises new challenges, and shares recent research results about access methods to explore information from the past preserved by web archives. The book is structured in six…
This book examines the role, history and function of public libraries in contemporary societies as motors that drive development. It analyses through case studies, how contemporary libraries have been redesigned to offer a new kind of public space while also reshaping neglected …
Collected here are White's many articles and speeches from the last 5 years, the period since he retired from being a librarian for 50 years and from writing the Library Journal column, "White Papers." White, pronouncing sweeping commentary on the library profession's opportunit…
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…
