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The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2015 - 300p

Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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

Subjects--Personal Names:
Libraries and Society
Libraries - History

Dewey Class. No.: 027.009 / MEA