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Library Bookwatch, August, 2004
The History Of The Library In Western Civilization
Konstantinos Staikos
Oak Knoll Press
310 Delaware St, New Castle, DE 19720
1584561149 $75.00 1-800-996-2556
An ideal "Memorial Fund" acquisition selection choice for academic and community library collections, The History Of The Library In Western Civilization: From Minos To Cleoptra is a superbly illustrated, 374-page, hardover coffee table book that debuts the visually and informationally impressive "The Great Libraries" series being published by Oak Knoll Press. Combining a wealth of text information with photographs, visual reconstructions of the architecture of great libraries of history, historical artifacts, charts of symbols and hieroglyphics used to convey information in the ancient world, and much more, The History Of The Library In Western Civilization is an amazing, eye-opening, and fascinating historical survey of ancient learning as embodied within the evolving institutional concept of the library.
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