The Enlightenment: a brief introduction -- Academic libraries and the philosophical Enlightenment -- Public libraries and the political Enlightenment -- Universal libraries : dream and reality.
Summary
"Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.