The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2015
Author	Editor: Alice Crawford
Language	English
Number of Pages	328 pp.
Publisher	Princeton University Press
City	Princeton, NJ
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Region	Europe
Library Type	Social/Subscription Libraries
Chronological Period	Ancient Period (pre 500) 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 21st century
ISBN	978-691-16639-1
Annotation	Contents: Introduction / Alice Crawford 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