Links and Bibliography for History of Libraries in the Western World -syllabus - Kent State University Taught by Miriam Kahn

Links and Books for History of Libraries in the Western World LIS 61095 (Kent State University) Summer 2008
Links
Resources for research paper: American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature. Library History Round Table ALA www.ala.org/ala/lhrt/amerlibhistcompbib/amerlibhis.cfm
Daniel Traister’s Resources for the History of Books and Printing http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/hbp.html

The Rare Book School pre-reading assignments http://www.rarebookschool.org/
Bibliotheca Alexandrina http://www.egypteng.com/projectm/alex.asp http://www.bibalex.org
Center for Epigraphical and Palaeological Studies at Ohio State University - http://epigraphy.osu.edu/default.cfm
Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/
Hereford Cathedral - Chained Library http://www.herefordcathedral.org/library_collect_library.asp
The Cloisters - Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/the_cloisters.org/
Digital Scriptorium - Columbia University http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/index.php
Duke University - Papyrus Archive http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
British Library - Early Printed Books http://www.bl.uk/collections/early.html

Timbuktu Libraries http://www.acropolis.org/news/Display_news.aspx?lang=eng&newsID=108


Bibliography
Clark, John Willis. The care of books; an essay on the development of libraries and their fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. Cambridge, University press, 1901
Streeter, Burnett Hillman. The Chained Library; a survey of four centuries in the evolution of the English library. London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1931
Blades, William “On Chained Libraries” The Library Series 1 vol 1 No. 1 (1889):411-417.







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