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The Beginnings of Libraries

by Ernest Cushing Richardson

A search of 1914 for the first libraries, in Babylon, Egypt and before. Richardson was librarian of Princeton. He defines a library generously enough to find one very early indeed.

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Reading time

About 1 hr 40 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #49849. In the public domain in the United States.