General Information

Language

English.

Published

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2015.

Physical Description

xxix, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Crawford, Alice, 1958- (editor of compilation.)

Hall, Edith, 1959- (author.)

Gameson, Richard, (author.)

Pettegree, Andrew, (author.)

Darnton, Robert, (author.)

Allan, David, 1964- (author.)

Sutherland, John, 1938- (author.)

Warner, Marina, 1946- (author.)

Crawford, Robert, 1959- (author.)

Marcus, Laura, (author.)

Enniss, Stephen, (author.)

Price-Wilkin, W. John (William John), 1956- (author.)

Billington, James H., (author.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap.

Subjects

Subject

Libraries > History.

Libraries.

Libraries and society.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Alice Crawford.

Content

Introduction / Alice Crawford -- Part 1. The Library through Time. 1. Adventures in ancient Greek and Roman libraries / Edith Hall ; 2. The image of the medieval library / Richard Gameson ; 3. The Renaissance library and the challenge of print / Andrew Pettegree ; 4. From printing shop to bookshelves : how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries / Robert Darnton ; 5. "The advantages of literature" : the subscription library in Georgian Britain / David Allan ; 6. Literature and the library in the nineteenth century / John Sutherland -- Part 2. The Library in Imagination. 7. The library in fiction / Marina Warner ; 8. The library in poetry / Robert Crawford ; 9. The library in film : order and mystery / Laura Marcus -- Part 3. The Library Now and in the Future. 10. "Casting and gathering" : libraries, archives, and the modern writer / Stephen Enniss ; 11. Meanings of the library today / John P. Wilkin ; 12. The modern library and global democracy / James H. Billington.

ISBN

9780691166391

0691166390

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	027/.009 CRA		Reference	-

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