Library of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1693-1793
Author : John M. Jennings
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
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ISBN : 9780835798082
Author : John M. Jennings
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
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ISBN : 9780835798082
Author : College of William and Mary (WILLIAMSBURG, Va.). Library
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : John Melville Jennings
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Libraries
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Author : John M. Jennings
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Page : 91 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
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Author : John Melville Jennings
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : John Melville Jennings
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Academic libraries
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Author : James Axtell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691247587
An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre–Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.
Author : Hugh Amory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0807858269
Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America encompasses seventeenth and eighteenth century book history.
Author : Mark Towsey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9004348670
Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.
Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1971-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824720056
"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."