How to Form a Library
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
- Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
- Date Published: October 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108021494
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Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838–1917) was a prolific writer on bibliography, literature and the arts. As founder of the Index Society, and editor of The Bibliographer, he was also involved in the foundation of the Library Association. In that context he wrote several works on library topics. How to Form a Library was published in 1886, when libraries were spreading rapidly throughout England. The book provides advice on the selection of material for different kinds of libraries and audiences, and suggests a list of core works. Although the choices reflect the period in which it was written - a point Wheatley makes about earlier lists - it nonetheless has a value in giving insight into the intellectual interests of the day. He was firmly against librarians acting as moral censors, and although his list of required reading is unlikely to be followed today, the book contains much valuable information on library history.
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- Date Published: October 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108021494
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. How men formed libraries
2. How to buy
3. Public libraries
4. Private libraries
5. General bibliographies
6. Special bibliographies
7. Publishing societies
8. Child's library
10. One hundred books
Index.
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