This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria,

This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria,

Translated, with supplementary material by Renben Peiss.

Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important f