Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writ
Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writ
What are the books that helped shape and define the last hundred years? This was the question put to the librarians of The New York Public Library as part of th
Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowled