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It also served as a model and inspiration for many other libraries that began to spring up throughout the colonies. Other types of libraries included commercial circulating libraries, athenaeums, and school-district libraries. The start of the development of the American library as we know it today, however, began in full force between 1850 and ...
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 ...
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House spoke to attendees at the Rooster Booster breakfast Thursday at the Owensboro Convention Center about the importance of libraries in the quest to gain knowledge ...
At Rochambeau, where Russian immigrants settled in the 1980s and 1990s, men would gather to wait for the library to open so they could read the library's Russian-language newspapers.
Libraries & culture (1999): 135-150. online; Mifflin, Jessie. The Development of Public Library Services in Newfoundland, 1934-1972 (Halifax: Dalhousie University Libraries and School of Library Service, 1978) Obee, David. The Library Book: A History of Service to British Columbia (Vancouver: British Columbia Library Association, 2011)
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
The term library is based on the Latin word liber for 'book' or 'document', contained in Latin libraria 'collection of books' and librarium 'container for books'. Other modern languages use derivations from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothēkē), originally meaning 'book container', via Latin bibliotheca (cf. French bibliothèque or German Bibliothek).