Libraries and the Enlightenment [electronic resource] / Wayne Bivens-Tatum.

By: Bivens-Tatum, WayneContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : Library Juice Press, 2012Description: xii, 211 pISBN: 9781936117949 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Libraries -- United States -- History | Academic libraries -- History | Public libraries -- Political aspects -- United States -- History | Libraries -- Aims and objectives | Libraries and societyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 027.073 LOC classification: Z731 | .B655 2012Online resources: Click to View
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The Enlightenment: a brief introduction -- Academic libraries and the philosophical Enlightenment -- Public libraries and the political Enlightenment -- Universal libraries : dream and reality.
Summary: "Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Enlightenment: a brief introduction -- Academic libraries and the philosophical Enlightenment -- Public libraries and the political Enlightenment -- Universal libraries : dream and reality.

"Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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