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Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles epub Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles pdf download Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles pdf file Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles audiobook Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles book review Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles summary | #469612 in Books | 2015-07-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.70 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant, literate, and useful -|By Peter Kenmore|This important and useful book surveys libraries over 4500 years and 5 continents, from a consistent but dynamic perspective. This helps tactically by demonstrating how the 21st century tension between the views of libraries as collections of books or as digitized, Internet-wide materials has played out cyclically over at lea|From Publishers Weekly|Battles, a contributor to Harper's and a Harvard librarian, offers a distinguished portrait of the library, its endurance and destruction throughout history, and traces how the library's meaning was questioned or altered according to the c
“Engrossingly saturated with fascinating lore, colorful anecdotes and deft portraits.”―Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard MetaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and ...
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