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Excerpt from The University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle, Vol. 11: Issued Four Times a Year by and for the Friends of the Library of the University; April 1943 On the assumption that the Friends of the University's Library are friends of all libraries, we are making libraries, old and new, the subject Of this issue of the Library Chronicle the library of ancient times, illustrated by one which was con tributing to civilization some two thousand years before the Christian era, described by Dr. Kramer, research fellow in the Babylonian section of the University Museum; our neighbor, the Darby Library, which contributed to the education and culture of Philadelphia in colonial years, and Will Observe its bicentennial May 1; certain aspects Of a present-day public library's service, described by Miss Flexner, readers' adviser Of the New York Public Library; and the article by Mr. Brown, our reference librarian, contrasting our old library of the present With the new library of 1891. If there be anything incongruous in thus combining periods and libraries so far separated in time and so dissimilar, it may be excused by the fact that libraries are probably as Old as civilization, and from the earliest known antiquity have been recognized as an essential, integral part of civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.