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Library
an unquiet history
By Battles, Matthew
- ISBN
- 978-0-39302-029-8
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
Battles, a rare books librarian at Harvard University's Houghton Library, has contributed essays and reviews to the Boston Book Review, London Review of Books, and Harper's Magazine. His elegantly written, ruminative history (parts of which appeared in Harper's as a January 2000 article "Lost in the Stacks: The Decline and Fall of the Universal Library") traces the fate of scrolls, tablets, books, and libraries from antiquity to the present day. "What I am looking for," he writes, "are points of transformation, those ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
