The Beginnings of Libraries
by Ernest Cushing Richardson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Richardson, Ernest Cushing, 1860-1939
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Libraries -- History -- To 400
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49849
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49849
- Release Date
- September 2, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBRARIES
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBRARIES § 1. Introduction
- 6.§ 2. The study of beginnings
- 7.§ 3. Definition of the Library
- 8.§ 4. Method
- 9.§ 5. Antediluvian libraries. General
- 10.§ 6. Libraries of the gods
- 11.§ 7. Animal and plant libraries?
- 12.§ 8. Preadamite libraries
- 13.§ 9. Adamite and Patriarchal libraries before the Flood
- 14.§ 10. Prehistoric and historic libraries
- 15.§ 11. The evolution of record keeping
- 16.§ 12. Memory libraries
- 17.§ 13. Pictorial object libraries
- 18.§ 14. Mnemonic object libraries
- 19.§ 15. Picture book libraries
- 20.§ 16. Ideographic records
- 21.§ 17. Types of primitive libraries
- 22.§ 18. Contents of primitive libraries
- 23.§ 19. The administration of primitive libraries
- 24.§ 20. The beginnings of library schools
- 25.§ 21. The beginnings of library research
- 26.§ 22. Bibliography
- 27.INDEX
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