TY  - BOOK
AU  - Battles,Matthew
TI  - Library: an unquiet history 
SN  - 9780393351453 (pbk.)
AV  - Z721 .B28 2015
U1  - 027.009 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Norton & Company
KW  - Libraries
KW  - History
KW  - Libraries and society
KW  - Books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index; DIS
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
UR  - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/8093
UR  - https://www.worldcat.org/title/library-an-unquiet-history/oclc/965767278&referer=brief_results
ER  -