Story Of Libraries From The Invention Of Writing To The Computer Age
/ Fred Lerner
London
: Continuum
, 2009.
x, 249 p., [16] p. of plates.
: ill.
Index
The earliest libraries -- Libraries of Classical -- Lanterns of the Dark Ages -- Libraries of the Orient --Libraries of the Islamic world -- The High Middle Ages --Gutenberg's legacy -- Treasuries of the book -- The repositories of knowledge -- Libraries of the people -- The rising generation -- Putting knowledge to work -- The craft of librarianship -- The science of information