Kniha: The Story of Libraries, Second Edition v anglickom jazyku

Nové vydanie knihy Freda Lernera The Story of Libraries sa zaoberá históriou a súčasnosťou knižníc, ako univerzálneho sveta, kde sa systematicky sústreďujú, ukladajú a šíria poznatky ľudstva už od vzniku písma. Oboznamuje nás nielen s históriou knižníc dávnych kultúr, stredoveku a novoveku, keď sa začalo používať kníhtlač. Ukazuje čitateľovi ako fungujú moderné knižnice na svete.

Čitateľom vrelo odporúčame aj ďalšiu novinku:  Living With The Books, nádherne ilustrovanú knihu o súkromných knižniciach.

In this fully updated edition, Fred Lerner continues to explore the ways in which men and women collect and organize the records of human experience. Updated to include our ever-expanding technology, this book describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria, which was lost to us in stages over many years), the Baghdad of Harun-al-Rashid, and medieval and Renaissance Europe. It continues with the libraries of colonial America, the Library of Congress, university libraries, and today's large public library system.
Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

1. The Earliest Libraries

2. Libraries of Classical Antiquity

3. Lanterns of the Dark Ages

4. Libraries of the Orient

5. Libraries of the Islamic World

6. The High Middle Ages

7. Gutenberg's Legacy

8. Treasuries of the Book

9. The Repositories of Knowledge

10. Libraries for the People

11. The Rising Generation

12. Putting Knowledge to Work

13. The Craft of Librarianship

14. Libraries of the Future

Notes

Principal Works Consulted

Index