Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies...

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection...

disciplines, library science and information science, but they are within the same field of study. Library science is applied information science. Library science...

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part...

incunabula. The Vatican Library is a research library for history, law, philosophy, science, and theology. The Vatican Library is open to anyone who can...

German Bibliothek). The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. The first libraries consisted of archives...

briefly known as Journal of Library History, Philosophy, and Comparative Librarianship before returning to Journal of Library History. In 1988, the title was...

A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as...

Libraries have been in West Virginia for much of its history as a state. Starting with subscription libraries, the early 19th century saw the beginning...

A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as...

mobile library, is a vehicle designed for use as a library. They have been known by many names throughout history, including traveling library, library wagon...

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally...

The Library of Contemporary History (German: Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte) is one of Europe's largest special libraries for contemporary history, in...

The Bodleian Library (/ˈbɒdliən, bɒdˈliːən/) is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one...

A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie...

The Church History Library (CHL) is a research center and archives building housing materials chronicling the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

The Library History Round Table encourages research and publication on library history and promotes awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship...

Hadrian's Library was created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. The building followed a typical Roman forum...

The history of libraries in Latin America dates back to before the conquest of the continent by the Spanish. Although the indigenous peoples of Mexico...

A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians...

A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely...

presented his "Library Plan for the Whole City", the first comprehensive branch library system in the nation. A landmark in library history, the plan called...

Modern Library Series (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014) Gordon B. Neavill, “The Modern Library Series: Format and Design, 1917-1977,” Printing History 1 (1979):...

The history of libraries in South Africa had its start with libraries formed for private use which later were made available for the general public. In...

Library (Russian: Российская государственная библиотека, romanized: Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka) is one of the three national libraries of...

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a research library with collections focusing on the history of African Americans in Denver and the American West. As of 2017, the library sees 135,000...

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de...

(previously Libraries & the Cultural Record, Libraries & Culture) Library & Information History (until 2008: Library History; until 1967: Library Association...

In computing, the Standard Template Library (STL) is a software library for the C++ programming language. The architecture of the STL is largely the creation...