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Author

Bivens-Tatum, Wayne.

Title Libraries and the Enlightenment [electronic resource] / Wayne Bivens-Tatum.

Imprint

Los Angeles : Library Juice Press, 2012.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xii, 211 p.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Libraries -- United States -- History.
	Academic libraries -- History.
	Public libraries -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Libraries -- Aims and objectives.
	Libraries and society.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9781936117420
	9781936117949 (electronic bk.)