| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 541 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: the changing world of libraries -- from cloister to hearth / Giles Mandelbrote and K.A. Manley -- The expansion of book collections 1640-1750 -- Ancients and moderns: cross-currents in early modern intellectual life / Joseph M. Levine -- Libraries, books and learning, from bacon to the enlightenment / Paul A. Nelles -- Opportunities for building collections and libraries / Julian Roberts -- Libraries for school education and personal devotion / Ian Green -- Libraries for the parish: individual donors and charitable societies / W.M. Jacob -- Endowed libraries for towns / Michael Powell -- Libraries in university towns / Charles Benson -- Ecclesiastical libraries: libraries for the higher clergy / Sheila Hingley -- Libraries for antiquaries and heralds / Nigel Ramsay -- Professional collections: libraries for scientists and doctors / Scott Mandelbrote -- Personal owners of books / Giles Mandelbrote -- Library buildings and fittings / John Newman -- Baroque librarianship / P.S. Morrish -- Library development at a local level -- Libraries for sociability: the advance of the subscription library / James Raven -- Local library provision: 1 Norwich / David Stoker -- Local library provision: 2 Belfast / Wesley McCann -- Provincial and Metropolitan Libraries 1750-1850 -- Libraries in context: social, cultural and intellectual background / Joanna Innes -- The book trade and libraries / John Feather -- Ecclesiastical libraries / Joan Williams -- Libraries in the parish / Graham Best -- Books and universities / Peter Freshwater -- Libraries and literacy in popular education / Brian Burch -- Scientific and medical libraries: the rise of the institution / John Symons -- The first century of the British Museum library / P.R. Harris -- The impact of the British Museum library / Marvin Spevack -- Private libraries in the age of bibliomania / Arnold Hunt -- Library architecture and interiors / M.H. Port -- Library management in the pre-professional age / P.S. Morrish -- Libraries for an imperial power / Wallace Kirsop -- Engines of literature: libraries in an era of expansion and transition / K.A. Manley |
| Summary |
This is a detailed scholarly history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. It provides a panorama of the great variety of libraries since the medieval period, setting them in their social and cultural contexts and interpreting their role as it has changed over time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Libraries -- Great Britain -- History
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Libraries -- Ireland -- History
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Libraries
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Great Britain
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mandelbrote, Giles
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Manley, K. A. (Keith A.)
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| ISBN |
9780511468148 |
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0511468148 |
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9781139055314 |
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1139055313 |
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9781139055314 |
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