ABSTRACT

First Published in 1994. This book focuses on the historical development of the library as an institution. Its contents assume no single theoretical foundation or philosophical perspective but instead reflect the richly diverse opinions of its many contributors. This text is intended to serve as a reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students interested in library history, for library school educators whose teaching requires knowledge of the historical development of library institutions, services, and user groups, and for practicing library professionals.

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A

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AACR

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Abbasids

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Abstracting

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Abstracting and Indexing Services

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Academic Libraries

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Academy of Sciences Library. St. Petersburg, Russia

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Accessioning

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Acquisitions

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Adolescents, Library Services To

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Afghanistan

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Africa

entry |1 pages

Agricultural Libraries

entry |1 pages

Albania

entry |3 pages

Alexandrian Library

entry |1 pages

Algeria

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Alphabetization

entry |2 pages

American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass., USA

entry |1 pages

American Library Association

entry |1 pages

Ancient Libraries

entry |9 pages

Ancient Near East

entry |2 pages

Anglo-American Cataloging Rules

entry |5 pages

Anglophone Africa

entry |1 pages

Angola

entry |1 pages

Antigua

entry |3 pages

Architectural Libraries

entry |5 pages

Archives

entry |3 pages

Argentina

entry |3 pages

Art Libraries

entry |1 pages

Ashurbanipal

entry |1 pages

Aslib

entry |4 pages

Audiovisual Materials and Services

entry |4 pages

Australia

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Australian National Library. Canberra

entry |3 pages

Austria

entry |2 pages

Austrian National Library. Vienna

entry |1 pages

Author Catalog

entry |1 pages

Authority File

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B

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Babylonian Libraries

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Bahamas

entry |1 pages

Bahrain

entry |2 pages

Baltic States

entry |1 pages

Bangladesh

entry |1 pages

Bank Libraries

entry |1 pages

Barbados

entry |1 pages

Bavarian State Library. Munich, Germany

entry |4 pages

Belgium

entry |1 pages

Belize

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Benedictine Library Rules

entry |1 pages

Benin

entry |1 pages

Beta Phi Mu

entry |2 pages

Bhutan

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Bible

entry |1 pages

Bibliographic Instruction

entry |2 pages

Bibliographical Societies

entry |7 pages

Bibliography

entry |2 pages

Bibliomania

entry |4 pages

Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Paris

entry |2 pages

Bibliotherapy

entry |1 pages

Bodleian Library

entry |2 pages

Bolivia

entry |3 pages

Book Forms

entry |3 pages

Bookbinding

entry |1 pages

Bookmobile

entry |2 pages

Boston Public Library. Massachusetts, USA

entry |1 pages

Botanical Libraries and Collections

entry |1 pages

Botswana

entry |1 pages

Branch Libraries

entry |2 pages

Brazil

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British Library. London, U.K.

entry |1 pages

British Museum Library

entry |1 pages

British Virgin Islands

entry |1 pages

Brunei

entry |3 pages

Bulgaria

entry |2 pages

Bulgarian National Library. Sofia

entry |1 pages

Burkina Faso

entry |1 pages

Burma

entry |1 pages

Burundi

entry |2 pages

Business Libraries and Collections

entry |3 pages

Byzantine Libraries

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C

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Calligraphy

entry |1 pages

Cambodia

entry |2 pages

Cambridge University Libraries. Cambridge, U.K.

entry |1 pages

Cameroon

entry |4 pages

Canada

entry |1 pages

Cape Verde

entry |4 pages

Caribbean

entry |11 pages

Catalogs and Cataloging

entry |1 pages

Cayman Islands

entry |7 pages

Censorship

entry |2 pages

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

entry |1 pages

Central African Republic

entry |4 pages

Central America

entry |1 pages

Chad

entry |1 pages

Charging Systems

entry |5 pages

Children's Services, Public

entry |3 pages

Chile

entry |6 pages

China, People's Republic of

entry |2 pages

Christian Libraries, Early

entry |4 pages

Church and Cathedral Libraries in Western Europe

entry |1 pages

Circulating Libraries

entry |3 pages

Circulation Systems

entry |1 pages

Citation Indexes

entry |10 pages

Classification

entry |12 pages

Collection Development

entry |1 pages

College Libraries

entry |3 pages

Colombia

entry |1 pages

Community College Libraries

entry |1 pages

Comoros

entry |2 pages

Comparative Librarianship

entry |1 pages

Computer

entry |1 pages

Congo, Popular Republic of

entry |3 pages

Conservation and Preservation

entry |2 pages

Continuing Library Education

entry |3 pages

Copyright

entry |1 pages

Corporate Entry

entry |1 pages

Costa Rica

entry |1 pages

County Libraries

entry |1 pages

Cuba

entry |2 pages

Cyprus

entry |2 pages

Czechoslovakia

letter |6 pages

D

entry |1 pages

Databases

entry |1 pages

Deaf, Services to

entry |4 pages

Denmark

entry |1 pages

Departmental Libraries

entry |1 pages

Deutsche Bibliothek. Frankfurt, Germany

entry |1 pages

Deutsche Bucherei. Leipzig, Germany

entry |2 pages

Deutsche Staatsbibliothek. Berlin, Germany

entry |1 pages

Dictionaries

entry |1 pages

Diplomatics

entry |1 pages

Djibouti

entry |1 pages

Documentation

entry |1 pages

Dominican Republic

letter |10 pages

E

entry |2 pages

Ecuador

entry |3 pages

Education for Librarianship

entry |1 pages

Egypt

entry |1 pages

El Salvador

entry |1 pages

Encyclopedia

entry |1 pages

Endowed Libraries

entry |1 pages

England

entry |1 pages

Equatorial Guinea

entry |1 pages

Erotica

entry |1 pages

Estonia

entry |2 pages

Ethics

entry |2 pages

Ethiopia

entry |2 pages

Evaluation of Library Services

entry |3 pages

Extension Services

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F

entry |1 pages

Farmington Plan

entry |1 pages

Federal Libraries

entry |2 pages

Fiction in Libraries

entry |1 pages

FID

entry |1 pages

Fiji

entry |1 pages

Filing

entry |3 pages

Film Libraries and Librarianship

entry |1 pages

Fines

entry |3 pages

Finland

entry |9 pages

Former Soviet Republics

entry |8 pages

France

entry |7 pages

Francophone Africa

entry |1 pages

French Antilles

entry |1 pages

French Polynesia

entry |1 pages

Friends Of Libraries

letter |30 pages

G

entry |1 pages

Gabon

entry |1 pages

Gambia

entry |5 pages

Gays and Lesbians in Library History

entry |6 pages

Gender Issues in Librarianship

entry |3 pages

Genealogical Libraries and Collections

entry |2 pages

German Research Society. Bonn, Germany

entry |8 pages

Germany

entry |2 pages

Germany Reunified

entry |1 pages

Ghana

entry |1 pages

Gifts and Exchanges

entry |1 pages

Göttingen University Library. Germany

entry |5 pages

Government Libraries

entry |2 pages

Government Publications in Libraries

entry |2 pages

Greece, Ancient

entry |2 pages

Greece, Modern

entry |1 pages

Grenada

entry |1 pages

Guam

entry |1 pages

Guatemala

entry |1 pages

Guinea

entry |1 pages

Guinea Bissau

entry |1 pages

Guyana

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H

entry |1 pages

Haiti

entry |3 pages

Handicapped, Services to

entry |3 pages

Harvard University Libraries. Cambridge, Mass., USA

entry |2 pages

Heidelberg University Library. Germany

entry |2 pages

Herzog August Bibliothek. Wolfenbüttel, Germany

entry |2 pages

Historical Society Libraries

entry |3 pages

Historiography of Library History

entry |1 pages

Honduras

entry |1 pages

Hong Kong

entry |1 pages

Hospital Libraries

entry |4 pages

Hungary

entry |1 pages

Huntington Library. San Marino, Calif., USA

letter |51 pages

I

entry |2 pages

Iceland

entry |1 pages

IFLA

entry |3 pages

Indexing

entry |5 pages

India

entry |2 pages

Indonesia

entry |6 pages

Information Science and Librarianship

entry |6 pages

Intellectual Freedom

entry |3 pages

Interlibrary Cooperation

entry |1 pages

Interlibrary Loan

entry |1 pages

International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists

entry |1 pages

International Association of Law Libraries

entry |1 pages

International Association of Metropolitan Cities Libraries

entry |1 pages

International Association of Music Libraries

entry |1 pages

International Association of School Librarianship

entry |1 pages

International Association of Technological University Libraries

entry |3 pages

International Cooperation

entry |1 pages

International Council on Archives

entry |5 pages

International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)

entry |1 pages

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

entry |1 pages

International Library and Bibliographical Organizations

entry |1 pages

Iran

entry |1 pages

Iraq

entry |3 pages

Ireland

entry |12 pages

Islamic Libraries to 1920

entry |3 pages

Israel

entry |7 pages

Italy

entry |3 pages

Itinerating Libraries

entry |1 pages

Ivory Coast

letter |8 pages

J

entry |1 pages

Jamaica

entry |4 pages

Japan

entry |4 pages

Jewish Libraries

entry |2 pages

John Rylands Library. Manchester, U.K.

entry |1 pages

Jordan

entry |1 pages

Journals

letter |2 pages

K

entry |1 pages

Kampuchea

entry |1 pages

Kenya

entry |2 pages

Korea

entry |1 pages

Kuwait

letter |80 pages

L

entry |3 pages

Labor Groups, Services to

entry |2 pages

Laos

entry |1 pages

Latvia

entry |5 pages

Law Libraries

entry |2 pages

League of Nations Library

entry |1 pages

Lebanon

entry |1 pages

Legal Deposit

entry |1 pages

Leipzig University Library. Germany

entry |1 pages

Lenin State Library. Moscow

entry |1 pages

Lesotho

entry |1 pages

Liberia

entry |5 pages

Library and Information Science Research

entry |1 pages

Library Architecture

entry |1 pages

Library Association. U.K.

entry |6 pages

Library Associations, International

entry |2 pages

Library Bill of Rights

entry |1 pages

Library Board

entry |9 pages

Library Buildings

entry |2 pages

Library Company of Philadelphia. USA

entry |1 pages

Library Education

entry |7 pages

Library Equipment

entry |1 pages

Library History

entry |3 pages

Library Instruction

entry |3 pages

Library Legislation

entry |6 pages

Library Literature

entry |5 pages

Library Management

entry |5 pages

Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., USA

entry |1 pages

Library Organization

entry |3 pages

Library Philanthropy

entry |2 pages

Library Profession

entry |3 pages

Library Publicity

entry |1 pages

Library Schools

entry |1 pages

Library Services

entry |8 pages

Library Staffing Patterns

entry |1 pages

Library Standards

entry |3 pages

Library Statistics

entry |1 pages

Library Storage

entry |3 pages

Library Surveys

entry |1 pages

Library-College

entry |1 pages

Libya

entry |2 pages

Liechtenstein

entry |7 pages

Literacy and Library Development

entry |2 pages

Literary Society Libraries

entry |1 pages

Lithuania

entry |3 pages

Lusophone Africa

entry |1 pages

Luxembourg

letter |37 pages

M

entry |1 pages

Macao

entry |1 pages

Madagascar

entry |1 pages

Malawi

entry |2 pages

Malaysia

entry |2 pages

Maldives

entry |1 pages

Mali

entry |1 pages

Malta

entry |1 pages

Management of libraries

entry |3 pages

Manuscripts

entry |2 pages

Map Libraries

entry |1 pages

Martinique

entry |1 pages

Mauritania

entry |1 pages

Mauritius

entry |1 pages

Mechanics' Institute Libraries

entry |6 pages

Medical Libraries

entry |12 pages

Medieval Libraries

entry |1 pages

Mercantile Libraries

entry |3 pages

Mexico

entry |2 pages

Microforms

entry |1 pages

Middle East

entry |2 pages

Military Libraries

entry |1 pages

Mobile Libraries

entry |1 pages

Molesworth Institute. Storrs, CONN., USA

entry |2 pages

Monaco

entry |2 pages

Monastic Libraries, Modern

entry |1 pages

Mongolia

entry |1 pages

Morocco

entry |2 pages

Moscow State University Libraries. Russia

entry |1 pages

Mozambique

entry |3 pages

Multicultural Societies and Ethnic Minorities, Services to

entry |1 pages

Municipal Reference Libraries

entry |3 pages

Music Libraries

entry |2 pages

Myanmar

letter |28 pages

N

entry |1 pages

Namibia

entry |3 pages

National Agricultural Library. Beltsville, MD., USA

entry |3 pages

National Central Library. Florence and Rome, Italy

entry |1 pages

National Central Library. London, U.K.

entry |2 pages

National Diet Library. Tokyo, Japan

entry |2 pages

National Library. Brussels, Belgium

entry |2 pages

National Library of Canada. Ottawa

entry |2 pages

National Library of Greece. Athens

entry |3 pages

National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, MD., USA

entry |2 pages

National Library of Spain. Madrid

entry |3 pages

National Széchényi Library. Budapest, Hungary

entry |4 pages

Near East Since 1920

entry |2 pages

Nepal

entry |2 pages

Netherlands, The

entry |1 pages

Netherlands Antilles

entry |1 pages

Networks, Library

entry |1 pages

New Caledonia

entry |5 pages

New York Public Library. USA

entry |3 pages

New Zealand

entry |2 pages

Newberry Library. Chicago, III., USA

entry |1 pages

Newspaper Libraries

entry |1 pages

Nicaragua

entry |1 pages

Niger

entry |1 pages

Nigeria

entry |1 pages

Nonprint Materials in Libraries

entry |1 pages

North Africa

entry |1 pages

North Korea

entry |1 pages

Northern Ireland

entry |2 pages

Norway

letter |10 pages

O

entry |1 pages

Oas

entry |1 pages

Oclc

entry |1 pages

Oman

entry |2 pages

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

entry |1 pages

Oral Traditions and Libraries

entry |1 pages

Organization of American States (OAS). Library Development Program

entry |5 pages

Organization of Libraries

entry |2 pages

Oslo University Library. Norway

entry |1 pages

Ottoman Libraries

entry |3 pages

Oxford University Libraries. U.K.

letter |47 pages

P-Q

entry |2 pages

Pakistan

entry |3 pages

Palace Libraries

entry |2 pages

Paleography

entry |1 pages

Panama

entry |2 pages

Papua New Guinea

entry |2 pages

Paraguay

entry |1 pages

Parish Libraries

entry |2 pages

Pergamum Library

entry |1 pages

Periodicals

entry |2 pages

Peru

entry |1 pages

Pharmaceutical Libraries

entry |2 pages

Philippines

entry |5 pages

Philosophies of Librarianship

entry |2 pages

Photoduplication

entry |1 pages

Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, USA

entry |4 pages

Poland

entry |3 pages

Popular Culture and Libraries

entry |4 pages

Portugal

entry |1 pages

Preservation of Library Materials

entry |1 pages

Presidential Libraries in The United States

entry |1 pages

Principe

entry |4 pages

Printing and Library Development

entry |4 pages

Prison Libraries

entry |5 pages

Private Libraries

entry |2 pages

Prussian State Library. Berlin, Germany

entry |11 pages

Public Libraries

entry |1 pages

Public Libraries Act of Great Britain, 1850

entry |4 pages

Publishing and Library Development

entry |1 pages

Puerto Rico

entry |1 pages

Qatar

letter |28 pages

R

entry |5 pages

Race Issues in Library History

entry |1 pages

Railroad Libraries

entry |1 pages

Rare Books

entry |2 pages

Readers' Advisers

entry |2 pages

Reading Rooms

entry |2 pages

Redwood Library. Newport, R.I., USA

entry |6 pages

Reference Services

entry |8 pages

Renaissance Libraries

entry |1 pages

Rental Libraries

entry |1 pages

Research Libraries

entry |1 pages

Resource Sharing in Libraries

entry |1 pages

Réunion

entry |1 pages

Reviews and Reviewing in Libraries

entry |3 pages

Romania

entry |2 pages

Rome, Ancient

entry |3 pages

Royal Library of Denmark. Copenhagen

entry |1 pages

Royal Library of Sweden. Stockholm

entry |2 pages

Royal Library of the Netherlands. The Hague

entry |1 pages

Rural Libraries

entry |1 pages

Russia

entry |2 pages

Russian State Library. Moscow

entry |1 pages

Rwanda

letter |56 pages

S

entry |1 pages

St. Christopher

entry |1 pages

St. Lucia

entry |1 pages

St. Vincent

entry |2 pages

Salamanca Library. Spain

entry |2 pages

Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library. St. Petersburg, Russia

entry |1 pages

Samoa

entry |1 pages

São Tomé

entry |1 pages

Saudi Arabia

entry |2 pages

Scandia Plan

entry |7 pages

School Library and Media Centers

entry |4 pages

Scientific and Technical Libraries

entry |1 pages

Scotland

entry |2 pages

Scriptoria

entry |1 pages

Selection of Library Materials

entry |1 pages

Seminary Libraries

entry |1 pages

Senegal

entry |4 pages

Serials Librarianship

entry |1 pages

Seychelles

entry |1 pages

Sierra Leone

entry |2 pages

Singapore

entry |3 pages

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Washington, D.C., USA

entry |3 pages

Social Class Issues in Library History

entry |4 pages

Social Libraries

entry |1 pages

Somalia

entry |2 pages

Sorbonne Library. Paris, France

entry |3 pages

Sound Recordings

entry |2 pages

South Africa

entry |1 pages

South Korea

entry |2 pages

South Pacific

entry |1 pages

Soviet Union

entry |3 pages

Spain

entry |3 pages

Special Collections

entry |3 pages

Special Libraries

entry |2 pages

Sri Lanka

entry |2 pages

Standards for Libraries

entry |3 pages

State Library Agencies in the United States

entry |1 pages

Storage for Library Materials

entry |1 pages

Storytelling in Libraries

entry |5 pages

Subject Headings

entry |3 pages

Subscription Libraries

entry |1 pages

Sudan

entry |2 pages

Sunday School Libraries

entry |1 pages

Suriname

entry |1 pages

Swaziland

entry |2 pages

Sweden

entry |3 pages

Swedish University Libraries

entry |2 pages

Switzerland

entry |1 pages

Syria

letter |12 pages

T

entry |3 pages

Taiwan

entry |1 pages

Tanzania

entry |1 pages

Technical Libraries

entry |1 pages

Technical Processes in Libraries

entry |1 pages

Temple Libraries

entry |2 pages

Thailand

entry |2 pages

Theater Libraries

entry |3 pages

Theological Libraries

entry |1 pages

Togo

entry |2 pages

Toronto Public Library. Ontario, Canada

entry |1 pages

Trinidad and Tobago

entry |1 pages

Trinity College Library. Dublin, Ireland

entry |1 pages

Tübingen University Library. Germany

entry |1 pages

Tunisia

entry |3 pages

Turkey

letter |23 pages

U

entry |1 pages

Uganda

entry |1 pages

Ukrania

entry |1 pages

Undergraduate Libraries

entry |2 pages

Unesco

entry |1 pages

Union Catalogs

entry |1 pages

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

entry |1 pages

United Arab Emirates

entry |9 pages

United Kingdom, Modern

entry |2 pages

United Nations Library

entry |3 pages

United States Information Agency Libraries

entry |9 pages

United States of America

entry |1 pages

Upper Volta

entry |1 pages

Urban Libraries

entry |2 pages

Uruguay

letter |6 pages

V

entry |4 pages

Vatican Library

entry |2 pages

Venezuela

entry |2 pages

Vietnam

entry |1 pages

Village Libraries

letter |3 pages

W

entry |1 pages

Wales

entry |1 pages

Weinberg Report

entry |1 pages

Western Samoa

entry |1 pages

Women in Library History

entry |1 pages

Workingmen's Libraries

entry |3 pages

Writing and Library Development

letter |5 pages

Y-z

entry |1 pages

Yemen

entry |3 pages

Young Adult Services

entry |2 pages

Young Men's Christian Association Libraries

entry |2 pages

Yugoslavia

entry |1 pages

Zaire

entry |1 pages

Zambia

entry |1 pages

Zimbabwe