The Story of Libraries

Author: Fred Lerner
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0826411142

The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age

This text describes the role that libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Clasical world, the Baghdad of Harun-al-Rashid, and medieval and Renaissance Europe. Download The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. It continues with the libraries of colonial America, the Library of Congress, university libraries, and today's large public library systems. With the invention of the printing press and the spread of literacy, libraries served the common reader, as well as the priestly and princely elites against which Catholic and Protestant reformers rebelled. In the 20th century, libraries have supported both democratic institutions and have also been tools of Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism. Today, at the dawn of the computer and telecommunication age, it is evident Search and find a lot of computer books in many category availabe for free download.

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