Bivens-Tatum, Wayne.

Libraries and the Enlightenment [electronic resource] / Wayne Bivens-Tatum. - Los Angeles : Library Juice Press, 2012. - xii, 211 p.

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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Libraries--History.--United States
Academic libraries--History.
Public libraries--Political aspects--History.--United States
Libraries--Aims and objectives.
Libraries and society.


Electronic books.

Z731 / .B655 2012eb

027.073