THE STORY OF LIBRARIES: FROM THE INVENTION OF WRITING TO THE COMPUTER AGE

Book ID/图书代码： 12771011B49118

English Summary/英文概要： This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria, which was lost to us in stages over many years), the Baghdad of Harun-al-Rashid, and medieval and Renaissance Europe. It continues with the libraries of colonial America, the Library of Congress, university libraries, and today’s large public library system.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书详细记载了历史上图书馆的至关重要的角色，不论是在古代埃及，中国汉朝，西方古典时期（亚历山大时期的大型图书馆，在经历历史变迁后，已逐步消逝），巴格达，中世纪乃至文艺复兴时期的欧洲。同时，随着时间的推移，本书将视线继而移到殖民时代的美国图书馆，国会图书馆，大学图书馆甚至今日的大型公共图书体系。(DC)

Awards/获奖情况："The insight and gentle wit that inform Lerner’s shorter essays can be seen throughout The Story of Libraries, a rich and thought-provoking work that should prove of interest to a wide readership in the book community."---AB Bookman’s Weekly

"Nowadays, when the widespread availability of written material has left us all a little jaded, we need more than ever to be reminded of the preciousness of books. Lerner’s survey performs this task admirably and entertainingly, with veneration and quiet drama."---Asimov’s Science Fiction

"Lerner writes with grace, suppleness, and verve about how people created and built and kept libraries. Lerner is a fine guide."---GraceAnne A. DeCandido, former editor-in-chief of Wilson Library Bulletin

"Only Fred Lerner’s The Story of Libraries offers even a passing view of the splendors of the book and the library in other cultures. Imagine the glorious Syrian library of Banu Ammar with its 180 copyists, its fabulous pavilions and watercourses; not to speak of the quite miraculous-sounding public libraries of 13th-century Baghdad, open even to the poor. More than other books, Lerner’s reminds us of the terrors that also lay in the textual past. He reminds us of the fragility of the word and the often marginal status of those places in which it is stored."---Los Angeles Times

"What a treasure trove Fred Lerner’s The Story of Libraries is--a bit like libraries themselves. Everything a library lover could possibly want to know."---Jane Yolen, author of Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and 200 other books

"We now have a book with ideas to impress general readers from the outside and stretch library-history insiders, especially those of us who are lucky enough to be teaching library history courses, for which this should now be the text of choice."---Librari

About the Author/作者介绍： 弗雷德?? 雷诺，哥伦比亚大学历史及图书馆科学博士，他不仅广泛创作当代科学小说，还建有一个图书馆数据库，供查阅外伤后压力的文学作品。现居佛蒙特，其妻子雪儿和他一起，雪儿是一名退休教师。
Fred Lerner holds degrees in history and library science from Columbia University, where he received his doctorate. He has also written widely on contemporary science fiction and produces a bibliographical database indexing literature on posttraumatic stress disorder. He lives in Vermont with his wife Sheryl, a retired teacher.

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