The Beginnings of Libraries
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBRARIES § 1. Introduction4. § 2. The study of beginnings5. § 3. Definition of the Library6. § 4. Method7. § 5. Antediluvian libraries. General8. § 6. Libraries of the gods9. § 7. Animal and plant libraries?10. § 8. Preadamite libraries11. § 9. Adamite and Patriarchal libraries before the Flood12. § 10. Prehistoric and historic libraries13. § 11. The evolution of record keeping14. § 12. Memory libraries15. § 13. Pictorial object libraries16. § 14. Mnemonic object libraries17. § 15. Picture book libraries18. § 16. Ideographic records19. § 17. Types of primitive libraries20. § 18. Contents of primitive libraries21. § 19. The administration of primitive libraries22. § 20. The beginnings of library schools23. § 21. The beginnings of library research24. § 22. Bibliography25. INDEX