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a| 0691166390 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
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a| The meaning of the library :
b| a cultural history /
c| edited by Alice Crawford.
a| Princeton ; Oxford :
b| Princeton University Press,
c| 2015.
a| xxix, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
b| illustrations (some color) ;
c| 25 cm.
a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.
t| 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.
a| "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.
a| Libraries and society.
a| Crawford, Alice,
d| 1958-
e| editor of compilation.
a| Hall, Edith,
d| 1959-
e| author.
a| Gameson, Richard,
e| author.
a| Pettegree, Andrew,
e| author.
a| Darnton, Robert,
e| author.
a| Allan, David,
d| 1964-
e| author.
a| Sutherland, John,
d| 1938-
e| author.
a| Warner, Marina,
d| 1946-
e| author.
a| Crawford, Robert,
d| 1959-
e| author.
a| Marcus, Laura,
e| author.
a| Enniss, Stephen,
e| author.
a| Price-Wilkin, W. John
q| (William John),
d| 1956-
e| author.
a| Billington, James H.,
e| author.
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