Scarecrow Press
Pages: 159
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Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-8108-3724-9 • Paperback • July 1999 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
978-0-8108-7715-3 • eBook • July 1999 • $72.00 • (£55.00)
Michael H. Harris is professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky and author of 10 books and over 50 papers on library history. He currently serves on the editorial board of Library Quarterly.
Preface
I: Libraries in the Ancient World
1. The Origin of Libraries
2. Babylonian and Assyrian Libraries
3. Egyptian Libraries
4. Greek Libraries
5. Roman Libraries
II. Medieval Libraries
6. Byzantine and Moslem Libraries
7. Monastic and Cathedral Libraries
8. The Rise of the University, the Renaissance, the Invention of Printing, and the Growth of Libraries in Europe to 1500
III. Modern Library Development in the West
9. European Libraries; Expansion and Diversification to 1917
10. Libraries in America to 1950
11. Modern European Libraries
12. Modern American Libraries
Index
About the author