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Ancient Period (pre 500)
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Flower, Derek Adie. The Shores of Wisdom: The Story of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Ramsey, Isle of Man, Wales: Pharos Publications, 1999.
Johnson, William A. Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Dudbridge, Glen. Lost Books of Medieval China. The Panizzi Lectures. London, England: British Library, 2000.
Jiang, Shuyong. “Into the Source and History of Chinese Culture: Knowledge Classification in Ancient China”. Libraries & The Cultural Record 42, no. 1 (2007): 1-20.
Dai, Lianbin. “China’s Bibliographic Tradition and the History of the Book”. Book History 17, no. 1 (2014): 1-50.
Liao, Jing. “A Historical Perspective: The Root Cause for the Underdevelopment of User Services in Chinese Academic Libraries”. Journal of Academic Librarianship 30, no. 2 (2004): 109-15.
Zhou, Jian-Zhong. “The Evolution of Journals and Early Scholarly Publications from Ancient China to the 21st Century”. Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science 7, no. 3 (2001): 1-11.
Carriker, Andrew. Library of Eusebius of Caesarea. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003.
Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Chrystal, Paul. Roman Recordkeeping & Communications. Stroud, England: Fonthill Media, 2018.
Dainard, Justine. “From Agamemnon to Alexandria: The Libraries of Classical Antiquity”. PNLA Quarterly 65, no. 4 (2001): 28-32.
Aho, Jon Arvid. “Using References in the Work of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260-339) to Understand the Collection of the Library of Caesarea”. University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
Yatsuhashi, Akira V. “In the Bird Cage of the Muses: Archiving, Erudition, and Empire in Ptolemaic Egypt”. Duke University, 2010.
Hoepfner, Wolfram. Antike Bibliotheken. Mainz, Germany: von Zabern, 2002.
Houston, George W. “How Did You Get Hold of a Book in a Roman Library?: Three Second-Century Scenarios”. Classical Bulletin 80, no. 1 (2004): 5-13.
Houston, George W. Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Houston, George W. “Tiberius and the Libraries: Public Book Collections and Library Buildings in the Early Roman Empire”. Libraries & The Cultural Record 43, no. 3 (2008): 247-69.
Ilie, Barbara J. “Libraries and Book Culture of the Byzantine Empire”. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.
Boudalis, Georgios. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity. New York, NY: Bard Graduate Center, 2018.
Henrickson, Thomas. Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism: The De Bibliothecis of Justis Lipsius. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2017.
Nongbri, Brent. God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
Staikos, Konstantinos. Books and Ideas: The Library of Plato and the Academy. Translated by Nikos Koutras. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013.