The Beginnings of Libraries
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Excerpt from The Beginnings of LibrariesA considerable mass of memoranda on the early history of libraries has been gathered by the author of this essay dur ing the last twenty-five years, and out of this material various essays have been published from time to time on Antedilu vian Libraries, Medieval Libraries, Some Old Egyptian Librarians, etc. The fact that the unworked mass of modern infor mation through excavations is so great as to put OE for a long time still a syste matic treatise, has led to the plan of pub lishing these essays and addresses from time to time as completed and in unif...
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- THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBRARIES
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBRARIES § 1. Introduction
- § 2. The study of beginnings
- § 3. Definition of the Library
- § 4. Method
- § 5. Antediluvian libraries. General
- § 6. Libraries of the gods
- § 7. Animal and plant libraries?
- § 8. Preadamite libraries
- § 9. Adamite and Patriarchal libraries before the Flood
- § 10. Prehistoric and historic libraries
- § 11. The evolution of record keeping
- § 12. Memory libraries
- § 13. Pictorial object libraries
- § 14. Mnemonic object libraries
- § 15. Picture book libraries
- § 16. Ideographic records
- § 17. Types of primitive libraries
- § 19. The administration of primitive libraries
- § 20. The beginnings of library schools
- § 21. The beginnings of library research
- § 22. Bibliography
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