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This directory is present a overview of library history, individual or comprehensive library all over the world. These links help the visitors to inform about the present past and future picture of library development/movement around the world.  If you know about such kind of library links, Please  email to  ginfovillage@yahoo.com with details. 

  

General

 

BUBL Resources on Library History and Culture.

Feminism and Library and Information Studies: History of a Female Intensive Profession.  

Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) School Library History

The History of Media Librarianship: A Chronology

The History of Private, Royal, Imperial, Monastic and Public Libraries  

Die Geschichte der Bibliotheken  

Organizations

 

ALA Library History Roundtable

Library History Group – one of the Library Association's 

IFLA Round Table on Library History  

 

People

 

Melvil Dewey
Two sites: Nice page created for an Information Science class and a brief bio from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Libraries Today

Wesley, Dorothy Porter

Women in the History of American Librarianship

Women in Canadian Librarianship and Bibliography

 

Librarianship

 

History of Librarianship.  

Library Science as a Career  

 

Journals

 

H-LIS  

Library History  

Libraries and Culture  

 

Regional

 

Libraries in Australia.  

Libraries Today  

Library of Congress Bicentennial.  

America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000 by James Conaway. Order from Amazon.com.

The Nation's Library by Alan Bisbort and Linda Barrett Osborne. Order from Amazon.com.

History of The British Library  

Library History Database  

Extracts from the History of Librarianship in Belarus.

Improved Practical and Integrated Skills: Library and Information Science Education in Estonia.

History of Libraries. Finland.  Most of site is in Finnish.  Public Libraries in Finland – 200 years. Festschrift is in English.

Materiali per la storia dei bibliotecari italiani (Sources for the history of  Italian librarians).

La historia de las bibliotecas en México, un tema olvidado. Rosa María Fernández de Zamora.

The DOST-ESEP Libraries: The First Library Network in the Philippines.

Romanian Library Area Study

Biblioteksmuseet Borås (The Library Museum) in Swedish.

Library of Alexandria: Ancient and Modern – History of the ancient Library of Alexandria by Professor Moustafa El-Ababadi. The Modern Library by Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Also visit the official government site.

Development of the Statewide Tax-Supported Library System in Alabama : 1901 - 1974. M.A. Thesis (in pdf format).

Florida Library History Project  

The South Carolina History Project

 

World-wide Library History (A-Z)

 

Alexandria Library

A Brief History of Library Instruction in the United States of America 

American Library Association Library History Round Table 

American Women's History, A Research Guide: Librarianship 

Archives of lis-libhist 

Boots Booklovers' Library 

Branch Libraries in the Bronx: A History with Selected Photographs

Carnegie Libraries of California 

Carnegie Libraries of Scotland 

Celebrating Women's Achievements: Women in Canadian Librarianship and Bibliography 

CILIP Library History Group 

Computer Applications in Libraries 

Deconstructing the Philanthropic Library: The Sociological Reasons Behind Andrew Carnegie's Millions to Libraries 

Exeter Free Library: Public Meeting, 1869 

Fortunate Son: the ALA and Librarianship 1968-1980 

Highlights from the Columbia University Library Science Library Vertical Files, 1832-1994 

History of a Female Intensive Profession 

History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries 

IFLA Round Table on Library History 

Images from the 1876 Report 

Internet Librarian Hall of Fame 

J.W. Clark and The Care of Books 

Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress 

Libraries & Culture 

Libraries of the Ancient World 

Libraries Today 

Libraries: History of the Private, Royal, Imperial, Monastic and Public Libraries 

Library History 

Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 

Library Instruction Outside North America in the 20th Century 

Littlehampton Library Past and Present 

Melvil Dewey: Father of Librarianship 

Milestones of Academic Librarianship 

Public Library Annual Reports 1850-1919: A Searchable Database 

Santa Cruz County Local History: Libraries and Schools 

South Carolina Library History Project 

The Dusty Bookshelf 

The Georgia Library History Project 

The Gerould Statistics 1907/08-1961/62: A Historical Compilation of Data from Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada 

The Histories of Central Vermont's Libraries

The History of Private, Royal, Imperial, Monastic and Public Libraries 

The Library of Alexandria: Ancient and Modern 

The Mysterious Fate of the Great Library of Alexandria 

The Order of Books 

Theological Libraries: Historical Sources 

Thomas Davis Lectures: The University of the People 

Women in the History of American Librarianship

 

 

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