Gatekeepers of knowledge : a consideration of the library, the book and the scholar in the Western world / Margaret Zeegers, Deirdre Barron.

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Zeegers, Margaret

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Series: Ghandos information professional series2010Description: 1 online resource (1 ebook (146 pages))Content type:

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9781780632070
178063207X
1843345064
9781843345060

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From the agora to the scriptoria -- From the scriptoria to the printery -- From the printery to the bookshelves -- From the bookshelves to the study -- Scholars of the second millennium.

Summary: Throughout its history, the Western library has played a significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western scholars. This book analyses that history, examining constructs of librarianship, publishing and scholarship within that history as gate keeping access to knowledge. Exploring significant events in the field from the time of the Lyceum to the present day in the development of repositories of books and their access by scholars. Gatekeepers of Knowledge engages in an analysis of those events from a perspective that makes visible the ways in which the production, storage and access of books, have been privileged, while others have been marginalised.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the agora to the scriptoria -- From the scriptoria to the printery -- From the printery to the bookshelves -- From the bookshelves to the study -- Scholars of the second millennium.

Throughout its history, the Western library has played a significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western scholars. This book analyses that history, examining constructs of librarianship, publishing and scholarship within that history as gate keeping access to knowledge. Exploring significant events in the field from the time of the Lyceum to the present day in the development of repositories of books and their access by scholars. Gatekeepers of Knowledge engages in an analysis of those events from a perspective that makes visible the ways in which the production, storage and access of books, have been privileged, while others have been marginalised.

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