While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once g

This is the first book to consider the development of all three cultural heritage institutions – libraries, archives, and museums – and their interactions w

Ethics and Values in Librarianship: A History addresses the processes of development of library and information sciences, largely but not exclusively in a weste

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking

Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-19th century, the history of libraries is much older, and peo