El-Abbadi, Mostafa, and Omnia Mounir Fathallah, eds. What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008.
State/Government Libraries
Flower, Derek Adie. The Shores of Wisdom: The Story of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Ramsey, Isle of Man, Wales: Pharos Publications, 1999.
Krätli, Graziano. “The Book and the Sand: Restoring and Preserving the Ancient Desert Libraries of Mauritania — Part 2”. World Libraries 14, no. 2 (2004). https://worldlibraries.dom.edu/index.php/worldlib/article/view/139/94.
Dudbridge, Glen. Lost Books of Medieval China. The Panizzi Lectures. London, England: British Library, 2000.
Flora, Nirmolini Velma. “Hill-Station Libraries in North India: A Historical Study of Selected Libraries in Landour Mussoorie, Simla, Naini Tal and Mukteswar As Reflections of British Culture, 1830-1947; With Special Reference to Their Background and the Institutions to Which They Were Connected”. Monash University, Australia, 2000.
Gamage, Premila. “Political Conflicts and Sri Lankan Libraries”. Library & Archival Security 18, no. 1 (2003): 43-51.
Gamsa, Mark. “Traces of Russian Libraries in China”. Library History 22, no. 3 (2006): 201-12.
Hernández, Vicente S. “Trends in Philippine Library History”. Libraries & Culture 36, no. 2 (2001): 329-44.
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.
de Weerdt, Hilde. “The Discourse of Loss in Song Dynasty Private and Imperial Book Collecting”. Library Trends 55, no. 3 (2007): 404-20.
Tejasen, Chirabodee, and Brendan Luyt. “The Hophrasamut Wachirayan: Library and Club of the Siamese Aristocracy, 1881–1905”. Information & Culture 49, no. 3 (2014): 396-400.
Anghelescu, Hermina G.B. “Historical Overview: The Parliamentary Library from Past to Present”. Library Trends 58, no. 4 (2010): 418-33.
Anghelescu, Hermine G.B. “The National Library of Romania: From Central State Library of the People’s Republic to National Library”. Alexandria 14, no. 1 (2002): 25-40.
Black, Alistair. “Arsenals of Scientific and Technical Information: Public Technical Libraries in Britain During and Immediately After World War I”. Library Trends 55, no. 3 (2007): 474-89.
Black, Alistair, and Christopher Murphy. “Information, Intelligence, and Trade: The Library and the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the British Board of Trade, 1834-1914”. Library and Information History 28, no. 3 (2012): 186-201.
Carden, Sheila. “The Origins of the Oireachtas Library”. Dublin Historical Record 57, no. 1 (2004): 102-8.
Carley, James P., ed. The Libraries of Henry VIII. London, England: British Library, 2000.
Carley, James P. “The Libraries of King Henry VIII: An Update of the Westminster Inventory of 1542”. The Library 7, no. 16 (2015): 282-303.
Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Chrystal, Paul. Roman Recordkeeping & Communications. Stroud, England: Fonthill Media, 2018.
Cortada, James W. “The Information Ecosystems of National Diplomacy: The Case of Spain, 1815-1936”. Information & Culture: A Journal of History 48, no. 2 (2013): 222-59.
Dickstein, Phyllis. “The Dag Hammarskjold Library, 1965-2005: Modernization and Outreach”. Library History 22, no. 2 (2006): 101-16.
Doyle, Kathleen, and Scott McKendrick, eds. 1,000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts. London, England: British Library, 2014.