An analysis of the registers for the first twelve years provides glimpses of middle-class reading habits in a mercantile community at this period. The largest and most popular sections of the …

Feb 1, 2025 · This article provides a history of libraries from their founding in the ancient world through the latter half of the 20th century, when both technological and political forces radically …

Feb 1, 2025 · In the West the idea of book collecting, and hence of libraries as the word was understood for several centuries, had its origin in the classical world. Most of the larger Greek …

Library history begins in ancient societies through contemporary issues facing libraries today. [3] . Topics include recording mediums, cataloguing systems, scholars, scribes, library supporters …

From the Revolutionary War until 1800, the Library Company served as the first de facto Library of Congress while the federal government was in Philadelphia. Still supported by shareholders,...

Feb 20, 2025 · The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association exists to facilitate communication among scholars and students of library history, to support research in …

Jul 23, 2019 · Libraries were a feature of larger cities across the ancient world with famous examples being those at Alexandria, Athens, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Nineveh. Rarely …

Library history is the academic discipline devoted to the study of the history of libraries; it is a subfield of library science and of history. The history of libraries began with the first efforts to …

Nov 17, 2016 · Get the facts on eight of the most magnificent libraries of the ancient world. Updated: August 22, 2023 | Original: November 17, 2016. 1. The Library of Ashurbanipal. Part …

Jun 2, 2018 · Abstract: This exploratory discussion considers history of libraries, in its broadest context; moreover, it frames the entire enterprise of pursuing history as it relates to LIS in the …