| Description |
xxix, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-280) and index. |
| Contents |
part 1. The library through time. Adventures in Ancient Greek and Roman libraries / Edith Hall ; The image of the medieval library / Richard Gameson ; The Renaissance library and the challenge of print / Andrew Pettegree ; From printing shop to bookshelves : how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries / Robert Darnton ; "The advantages of literature" : the subscription library in Georgian Britain / David Allan ; Literature and the library in the nineteenth century / John Sutherland -- part 2. The library in imagination. The library in fiction / Marina Warner ; The library in poetry / Robert Crawford ; The library in film : order and mystery / Laura Marcus -- part 3. The library now and in the future. "Casting and gathering" : libraries, archives, and the modern writer / Stephen Enniss ; Meanings of the library today / John P. Wilkin ; The modern library and global democracy / James H. Billington. |
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Libraries -- History.
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Libraries.
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Libraries and society.
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| Added Author |
Crawford, Alice, 1958- editor.
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Hall, Edith, 1959- author.
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Gameson, Richard, author.
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Pettegree, Andrew, author.
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Darnton, Robert, author.
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Allan, David, 1964- author.
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Sutherland, John, 1938- author.
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Warner, Marina, 1946- author.
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Crawford, Robert, 1959- author.
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Marcus, Laura, author.
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Enniss, Stephen, author.
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Price-Wilkin, W. John (William John), 1956- author.
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Billington, James H., author.
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| ISBN |
0691166390 |
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9780691166391 |
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