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Klappentext This history of libraries is particularly important as a pioneering work on all aspects of public library management and organisation. Zusammenfassung This monumental 1859 book describes the evolution of libraries in Britain! Europe and America from antiquity to the mid-nineteenth century. It examines numerous ecclesiastical! university and civic libraries! and concludes with the author's views on all aspects of library management! focusing particularly on the municipal libraries he fervently promoted. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. History of Libraries (continued): Book III (continued): 15. The older libraries of English towns, and their management by municipal corporations; 16. The parochial and quasi-parochial libraries of England; 17. The history of the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855; 18. The working of the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855; Appendix. Book 3: 19. The libraries of the Faculty of Advocates, and of the Writers to the Signet, at Edinburgh; 20. The university and town libraries of Scotland; 21. The library of Trinity College, Dublin, and some of the other Irish libraries; 22. The minor libraries of London; 23. British private libraries which have been dispersed; 24. Notices of some existing British private libraries; Book IV. The Libraries of the United States of America: 1. The collegiate libraries of the United States; 2. The proprietary and subscription libraries of the United States; 3. The Congressional and state libraries of the United States; 4. The town libraries of the United States; 5. The Smithsonian Institution at Washington; 6. The public school and district libraries of the United States; Book V. The Modern Libraries of Continental Europe; 1. The imperial library of France; 2. The minor libraries of Paris; 3. The provincial libraries of France; 4. The libraries of Italy; 5. The royal and metropolitan libraries of Germany; 6. The town libraries of Germany; 7. The university libraries of Germany, Moravia, and Gallicia; 8. The libraries of Holland, Switzerland and Belgium; 9. The libraries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway; 10. The libraries of Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, and Russia; 11. The libraries of Spain and Portugal; 12. Past, present, and future....
