Libraries and the Enlightenment
By: Wayne Bivens-Tatum
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Duluth, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781936117420
Subjects: Libraries; Aims and objectives; Libraries and society; Public libraries; Academic libraries; History
Description: "Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Enlightenment: a brief introduction; title: Academic libraries and the philosophical Enlightenment; title: Public libraries and the political Enlightenment; title: Universal libraries : dream and reality.