TY - BOOK AU - Crawford,Alice AU - Billington,James H. AU - Price-Wilkin,W.John AU - Enniss,Stephen AU - Marcus,Laura AU - Crawford,Robert AU - Warner,Marina AU - Sutherland,John AU - Allan,David AU - Darnton,Robert AU - Pettegree,Andrew AU - Gameson,Richard AU - Hall,Edith ED - Ebrary inc. TI - The meaning of the library: a cultural history AV - Z721 .M43 2015eb U1 - 027/.009 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Libraries KW - History KW - Local KW - Libraries and society KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index; Introduction; Alice Crawford --; Part 1; The Library through Time; 1; Adventures in ancient Greek and Roman libraries; Edith Hall; 2; The image of the medieval library; Richard Gameson; 3; The Renaissance library and the challenge of print; Andrew Pettegree; 4; From printing shop to bookshelves : how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries; Robert Darnton; 5; "The advantages of literature" : the subscription library in Georgian Britain; David Allan; 6; Literature and the library in the nineteenth century; John Sutherland --; Part 2; The Library in Imagination; 7; The library in fiction; Marina Warner; 8; The library in poetry; Robert Crawford; 9; The library in film : order and mystery; Laura Marcus --; Part 3; The Library Now and in the Future; 10; "Casting and gathering" : libraries, archives, and the modern writer; Stephen Enniss; 11; Meanings of the library today; John P. Wilkin; 12; The modern library and global democracy; James H. Billington N2 - "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/pucpr/docDetail.action?docID=11057104 ER -