Ebook: The idea of the library in the ancient world
Author: Too Yun Lee
- Tags: Libraries -- History -- To 400. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries. Libraries. Electronic books.
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Oxford
- Language: English
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In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library'sRead more...
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A study of the ancient library as a complex institution with many different functions: as an instrument of power, of memory; an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place forRead more...
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