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Libraries and Archives analyses the facts and arguments behind an increasing debate as to what extent libraries and archives are fulfilling the same missions. Despite the fact that… Read more
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List of figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
About the author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Pre-historic times
Abstract:
Ebla – archive or library?
Alexandria – library or archive?
Summary and reflections
Chapter 3: National libraries and archives from early modern times to 1900
Abstract:
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe
Founding of the institution – archives
Libraries and legal deposit
Summary and reflections on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – fundamental changes
Classification
Cataloguing, or how to describe the physical objects?
Summary and reflections on the nineteenth century
Chapter 4: Twentieth-century libraries
Abstract:
Introduction
The transformation of library infrastructures
The national bibliography as core activity
The indispensible quality of union catalogues
The content of legislation and its impact and challenges
The New Age – meeting challenges and incorporating new technologies
Chapter 5: Twentieth-century archives
Abstract:
Introduction
Legal support
Problems and possibilities with standardisation
Appraisal – challenging, but necessary
Summary and conclusion
Chapter 6: What’s in store?
Abstract:
Introduction
The digital crossroads
Final words
Bibliography
Index
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