LIBRARY, AN UNQUIET HISTORY.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 246 pages. First edition. Matthew Battles works at the Houghton Library, the rare books library at Harvard University, and is a contributor to Harper's. This book is about the preservation and destruction of libraries throughout history from the clay-tablet collection of ancient Mesopotamia to the Information Age and the internet. Battles explores now, through its many changes, the library has served two..... READ MORE about LIBRARY, AN UNQUIET HISTORY
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