Archive
The Care of Books
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA scholarly history of how books were physically stored, chained, and organised across medieval and early libraries, long before anything resembling a modern shelf existed. Clark was a librarian himself, cataloguing the profession’s own distant ancestors. It is drier than most of this catalogue and prouder of that fact than it should be.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 7 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #26378. In the public domain in the United States.