Library : (Record no. 33940)
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| fixed length control field | 01427nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 200106b2004 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0099437074 |
| 060 ## - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Z 665. |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal author | Battles, Matthew |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Library : |
| Subtitle | an unquiet history |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION INFORMATION | |
| Place of publication | London : |
| Publisher | Vintage, |
| Date | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Physical description | xa, 245p. |
| 520 ## - ABSTRACT | |
| Abstract | Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but shaped, inspired and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles takes us on a fascinating journey from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library.<br/><br/>The library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us, from the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the legendary libraries of Alexandria, from the burned scrolls of the Qing Dynasty to the book-pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the Dewey Decimal System to the Internet. Battles explores how the library has served two contradictory impulses: to exalt canons of literature, to secure and celebrate the best writing; and the desire to contain all forms of human knowledge - to keep all the books. In its custody of books and the words they contain, the library has confronted and tamed technology, the forces of change and the power of princes time and again. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT HEADINGS | |
| Subject term | Libraries |
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| Subject term | History |
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| Subject term | Culture |
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| Subject term | Civilisation |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| National Library of Medicine | South London and Maudsley Trust Library | South London and Maudsley Trust Library | Shelves | 06/01/2020 | 1 | 2 | Z 665 BAT | 023377 | 26/06/2023 | 20/04/2023 | 06/01/2020 | Book |