Battles, Matthew.

Library : an unquiet history / Matthew Battles. - 1st ed. - New York. : W.W. Norton, c2003. - x, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher's Weekly

Traces the history of libraries from the clay-tablet collections of Mesopotamia to the electronic libraries of the twenty-first century.

Adult

0393020290

2002156439


Libraries--History.
Libraries and society--History.
Books--History.
Libraries--History.
Libraries and society--History.
Books--History.

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