TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crawford,Alice
AU  - Hall,Edith
AU  - Gameson,Richard
AU  - Pettegree,Andrew
AU  - Darnton,Robert
AU  - Allan,David
AU  - Sutherland,John
AU  - Warner,Marina
AU  - Crawford,Robert
AU  - Marcus,Laura
AU  - Enniss,Stephen
AU  - Price-Wilkin,W.John
AU  - Billington,James H.
TI  - The meaning of the library: a cultural history
SN  - 9780691166391
U1  - 027.009/MEA/H 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Libraries
KW  - History
KW  - Libraries and society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index; 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
ER  -