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Author Bivens-Tatum, Wayne.

Title Libraries and the Enlightenment / Wayne Bivens-Tatum
Published Los Angeles : Library Juice Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)
Contents The Enlightenment: a brief introduction -- Academic libraries and the philosophical enlightenment -- Public libraries and the political enlightenment -- Universal libraries: dream and reality -- The universal library of enlightenment
Summary "Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Libraries -- United States -- History
Academic libraries -- History
Public libraries -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Libraries -- Aims and objectives.
Libraries and society.
Academic libraries
Libraries
Libraries -- Aims and objectives
Libraries and society
Public libraries -- Political aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781936117949
1936117940