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    History of libraries

    The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for targeted audiences, architectural merit, patterns of usage, and the role of libraries in a nation's cultural heritage, and the role of government, church or private sponsorship. Computerization and digitization arose from the 1960s, and changed many aspects of libraries. 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. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Category: Libraries by century of establishment. ... Libraries established in the 19th century (10 C, 1 P) Libraries established in the 20th century (10 C, 1 P) Libraries established in the 21st century (3 C) This page was last edited on 24 December 2022, at 09:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
  4. britannica.com

    Library - Ancient, Digital, Preservation: In earliest times there was no distinction between a record room (or archive) and a library, and in this sense libraries can be said to have existed for almost as long as records have been kept. A temple in the Babylonian town of Nippur, dating from the first half of the 3rd millennium bc, was found to have a number of rooms filled with clay tablets ...
  5. historydraft.com

    The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
  6. palmbeachstate.libguides.com

    Although this library could have marked a turning point between the age of antiquity and the classical era, it was not the first library. It was not even the first library to be systematically organized. That distinction goes to the Library of Ashurbanipal, a 7th century BCE library located in Nineveh or present-day, northern Iraq. Nor was the ...
  7. palmbeachstate.libguides.com

    Libraries provided reading rooms with almanacs and encyclopedias and newspaper reading rooms to keep readers up to date on world occurcences, but as libraries grew across the country so too did the demand for commonplace reading (i.e. fiction). The last quarter of the 19th century saw a surge in public libraries.
  8. The greatest library in human history, the Library of Alexandria, was planned by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in collaboration with Demitrius of Phaleron in the 3rd century BC. They planned to collect the entirety of Greek literature in the best copies available and modeled the Greek idea to organize it in meticulous systematic order.
  9. slideshare.net

    This document provides a history of libraries from ancient Sumeria and Egypt to the modern era. It describes how early libraries evolved from clay tablets and papyrus collections housed in palaces and temples for official records, to libraries in Greece and the great Library of Alexandria which had hundreds of thousands of scrolls organized by subject.
  10. britannica.com

    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 reshaped library development. It offers an overview of several types of traditional libraries and explains how libraries collect, organize, and make accessible ...

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