THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBRARIES 1. Introduction 5. Antediluvian libraries. General 7. Animal and plant libraries? 9. Adamite and Patriarchal libraries before the Flood 10. Prehistoric and historic libraries 11. The evolution of record keeping 13. Pictorial object libraries 17. Types of primitive libraries 18. Contents of primitive libraries 19. The administration of primitive libraries 20. The beginnings of library schools 21. The beginnings of library research A Collection of Quipus THE Beginnings of Libraries BY Ernest Cushing Richardson LIBRARIAN OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton University Press Princeton London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1914 Copyright, 1914, by Ernest Cushing Richardson PUBLISHED FEBRUARY, 1914 |