7 rows · · Matthew Battles is the author of Palimpsest and Library: An Unquiet History and a program Edition description: Reprint. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age/5(75). In this sweeping view of library history, Harvard librarian Matthew Battles provides a beautifully written story of the often-tumultuous saga of books and book-places in the world. Written first as an essay published in Harper's; this study grew into a book-length treatment, an admirable overview of the large issues facing libraries over the past couple of thousand years%(41).
Buy a cheap copy of Library: An Unquiet History book by Matthew Battles. Engrossingly saturated with fascinating lore, colorful anecdotes, and deft portraits. --Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times Through the ages, libraries have not Free Shipping on all orders over $ 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.". ― Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History. 3 likes. Like. "In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the "middling sort.". Reading whatever we will, we. Matthew Battles is the author of Palimpsest and Library: An Unquiet History and a program fellow at the Berkman Center of Harvard University, where he is associate director of metaLAB, a research group exploring the bounds of networked culture.
In this sweeping view of library history, Harvard librarian Matthew Battles provides a beautifully written story of the often-tumultuous saga of books and book-places in the world. Written first as an essay published in Harper's; this study grew into a book-length treatment, an admirable overview of the large issues facing libraries over the past couple of thousand years. Burning a library seems a particularly vicious and sad thing to do, but it would not have surprised Matthew Battles. He works at the rare books section at Harvard's library, and he has written _Library: An Unquiet History_ (W. W. Norton), a tour of libraries through history, and what becomes of them. An Unquiet History. by Matthew Battles (Author, Berkman Center for Internet and Society) "Engrossingly saturated with fascinating lore, colorful anecdotes, and deft portraits." —Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge.
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