The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection...

much younger than the libraries it studies. Library history begins in ancient societies through contemporary issues facing libraries today. Topics include...

media related to Libraries. Libraries at Curlie LIBweb—Directory of library servers in 146 countries via WWW Centre for the History of the Book, hss.ed...

Library History.” Libraries & Culture 35 (1): 155. Lear, Bernadette A. "LHRT Leadership, Programs, and Awards, 1998–2023."Libraries: Culture, History...

and outside libraries as well as cross-culturally; how people are trained and educated for careers in libraries; the ethics that guide library service and...

written language and, in some cases, created libraries and record depositories of their own, library history of the continent tends to focus on post-conquest...

Libraries have been in West Virginia for much of its history as a state. Starting with subscription libraries, the early 19th century saw the beginning...

part of having an educated and literate population. Public libraries are distinct from research libraries, school libraries, academic libraries in other...

The history of libraries in South Africa had its start with libraries formed for private use which later were made available for the general public. In...

The great libraries of the ancient world served as archives for empires, sanctuaries for sacred writings, and depositories of literature and chronicles...

Raven, James (2006). "15 - Libraries for sociability: the advance of the subscription library". The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland...

Libraries Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Cornell University Library Duke University Libraries The Federal Library and...

lending library is a library from which books and other media are lent out. The major classifications are endowed libraries, institutional libraries (the...

Large university libraries are considered research libraries, and often contain many specialized branch research libraries. The libraries provide research...

The Library of Contemporary History (German: Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte) is one of Europe's largest special libraries for contemporary history, in...

[as well as books] for information gathering." School libraries are distinct from public libraries because they serve as "learner-oriented laboratories...

presidential library system is a nationwide network of 16 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National...

establish 70 libraries in the American Colonies. These included five provincial libraries located in the major cities of time, 39 parochial libraries at Anglican...

Libraries have been deliberately or accidentally destroyed or badly damaged. Sometimes a library is purposely destroyed as a form of cultural cleansing...

Church History Library (CHL) is a research center and archives building housing materials chronicling the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Library History. In 1988, the title was changed to Libraries & Culture, and changed again to Libraries and the Cultural Record in 2006. In 2012, the journal...

literacy. History of libraries in South Africa National Archives and Records Service of South Africa Coates, P. (2012). Was the South African Library an Athenaeum...

The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world. Long after...

modern town of Bergama, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey. It was one of the most important libraries in the ancient world. Founded sometime during...

Library (Russian: Российская государственная библиотека, romanized: Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka) is one of the three national libraries of...

the 50th anniversary in the journal, Libraries & Culture and the 75th in the journal, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society . References JuliaSkinner...

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is an institutional archives and library system comprising 21 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution...

the attributes of national libraries, such as legal deposit. Many national libraries cooperate within the National Libraries Section of the International...

about the outside appearance of it. The history of libraries in Kosovo dates back to the 14th and 15th centuries. Collections of the Christian and Muslim...

alphabetical list of notable libraries around the world. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries. Contents:  Top A B...