Libraries, books, & culture : proceedings of Library History Seminar VII, 6-8 March 1985, Chapel Hill, North Carolina / edited by Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Main entry:

Library History Seminar (7th : 1985 : Chapel Hill, N.C.)

Title & Author:

Libraries, books, & culture : proceedings of Library History Seminar VII, 6-8 March 1985, Chapel Hill, North Carolina / edited by Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Publication:

Austin : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

Description:

491 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Reprinted from Journal of library history, volume 21, numbers 1 & 2."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plenary sessions -- The early use of printed books in Europe and America -- The formation of American bibliothecal institutions -- Popular libraries in mid-nineteenth-century North America -- Western influences in the South Asian world of books -- Circulating and rental libraries in the modern United States -- The role of the library in two cultural contexts -- The influences of private libraries -- Books and libraries in twentieth-century France and the Soviet Union -- Religious literature in two diverse cultures -- Women in professional leadership: The American South -- Research in reading: two approaches -- Reports of current library historiography abroad.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0938729004
9780938729006

Subject:

Libraries History Congresses.
Bibliothèques Histoire Congrès.
Libraries.
Bibliotheekwezen.
Geschichte

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Host item:

Journal of library history, V.21, no.1 & 2

Added entries:

Davis, Donald G.
Journal of library history (University of Texas at Austin)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 180434
Call No.: ID Z672.5.L53; ID:98-B828
Status: Available

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