Libraries and the Enlightenment

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2012
Contributors Author: Wayne Bivens-Tatum
Language
Number of Pages
211 pp.
Publisher
Library Juice Press
City
Duluth, MN
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Chronological Period
ISBN
9781936117420
Annotation

Traces influence of Enlightenment ideas on American libraries. 

Contents: 

  • The Enlightenment: a brief introduction
  • Academic libraries and the philosophical enlightenment
  • Public libraries and the political enlightenment
  • Universal libraries: dream and reality
  • The universal library of enlightenment