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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University...

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books, is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College...

The Russian State Library (‹See Tfd›Russian: Российская государственная библиотека, romanized: Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka) is one of the...

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

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

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

The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars, also known as the "Golden Library", is a library speculated to have been assembled by Grand Duke Ivan III (the Great)...

Osler Library, a branch of the McGill University Library and part of ROAAr since 2016, is Canada's foremost scholarly resource for the history of medicine...

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

Library is the network of libraries and services at Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Library is...

Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination is a private library and collection of artistic, scientific, and historical artefacts. The Library was...

Wisdom (Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَة Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual...

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

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...