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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 ...
Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures. [1] Some see the field as a subset of information history . [ 2 ]
American Library History: a comprehensive guide to the literature. (ABC-CLIO, 1989) ISBN 0-87436-142-7; Harris, Michael H. and Davis, Donald G. Jr. American Library History: a bibliography. Austin: University of Texas (1978). ISBN 0-292-70332-5; Harris, Michael H. "Library history: a critical essay on the in-print literature."
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Organized collection of books or other information resources It has been suggested that Multimedia library be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since February 2025. For other uses, see Library (disambiguation). Library patron retrieving a book from a shelf A library is a ...
In 2009, Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA) and the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA) join to become an expanded division of ALA known as ALTAFF, the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations. Friends of the Library provide support through raising the budget of libraries by book sales and outreach.
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Then stepping through the publication of the rule of St. Benedict, early in the sixth century, that by the end of the 11th century that Benedictine houses possessed two sets of books—(1) distributed among the brethren; (2) that were kept in some safe place, and recounts that the Durham Rites spoke of book-presses standing in the cloister ...