TY  - BOOK
AU  - Battles,Matthew
TI  - Library: an unquiet history 
SN  - 9780393351453 (pbk.)
AV  - Z 721 B336l 2015
U1  - 027.009 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Libraries
KW  - History
KW  - Bibliotecas
KW  - Historia
KW  - Historia de las bibliotecas
KW  - Libraries and society
KW  - Books
KW  - Historia del libro
KW  - Libros
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index; Reading the library --
Burning Alexandria --
The house of wisdom --
The battle of the books --
Books for all --
Knowledge on fire --
Lost in the stacks --
Afterword
N2  - 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 on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new epilogue elucidates the preservation of knowledge amid the creative destruction of twenty-first century technology
ER  -