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Consisted of separate libraries founded in the time of Augustus near the Roman Forum that contained both Greek and Latin texts, separately housed, as was the conventional practice. There were libraries in the Porticus Octaviae near the Theatre of Marcellus, in the temple of Apollo Palatinus, and in the Bibliotheca Ulpia in the Forum of Trajan.
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 ...
The Library was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world, but details about it are a mixture of history and legend. [17] The earliest known surviving source of information on the founding of the Library of Alexandria is the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas , which was composed between c. 180 and c. 145 BC.
Libraries & the Cultural Record 46, no. 3: 321-342. Luyt, Brian. 2007. “The ALA, Public Libraries and the Great Depression.” Library History 23 (2): 85–96. Martin, Lowell A. Enrichment: A History of the Public Library in the United States in the Twentieth Century (2003)
Although the library of Pergamum was built roughly a century after the library of Alexandria, [10] the two had a fierce rivalry, as libraries were often used to reflect wealth and culture. The two libraries competed for parchment, books, and even literary interpretation. Pergamum also hired some Homeric scholars, who studied the Iliad and the ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of lists of libraries by location and type . Libraries by location. By ...
A Spanish digital library that provides access to the cultural heritage of the city of Madrid. Memoriademadrid digitizes heritage collections from the archives, libraries and museums belonging to the Local Government of Madrid. Biblioteca Digital memoriademadrid: Metelwin Digital Library General, heritage
Frank J. Burgoyne (1858–1913) – author and librarian at Lambeth Libraries; Edward Dundas Butler – translator and senior librarian at the Department of Printed Books, British Museum; Lee Pierce Butler; Andrew Carnegie – Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who financed thousands of libraries around the world; Leon Carnovsky