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Before the Common Era: A Legacy
Before the Common Era, 2000 BCE specifically, a library full of clay tablets which was the standard form of information in ancient times is what was excavated in Elba at this time. -
Jan 1, 800
A Transitional Phase; Medieval Libraries
Manuscripts and books were introduced. This event was a stepping stone for the modernation notion of "a book," as manuscripts were written and preserved in medieval libaries and were not available for checking out, but just for viewing due to the rarity of this new introduction. -
Jan 1, 1200
University Libraries and Catalogging
In the 13th Century, catlogging and university libraries started to arise. This introduced the modern notion of variety and selection, and personal specialization of specific libraries. At old religious universities, libraries began to include books more focused on religion, mainly Christianity. -
Mass Production
in the 1600's, mass production of books and the notion of modern pubication was formed. In 1644, the first widely known mass production of a "book" was done by Gabriel Naude on ironically, collection development. -
Colonization and Libraries
With the colonization of the New World in the 17th Century, laws were enacted in order to educate the men of the new world, and thus, this education came in the form of raising literacy rates through reading in libraries, were most of today's "old" libraries, stand, in the colonization areas of the South. -
Collecting Books
WIth the rise of our founding fathers becoming rich due to status, they were educated, and this meant that they read a lot, simply. THis meant that they had extensive collections of books that created personal libraries. Upon their passing, they decided that endowment for buildings to hold their books, such as George Washington and the Library of Congress, had to occur. -
The Industrial Revolution and Libraries
With the booming of the Industrial Revolution in the 1800's, more of society had leisure time. Thus, the modernization of what it means to have a public library came into play as the library became a community building where people gathered to expand their minds, together. -
Boston: The Nation's First True Public Library
In 1854, the city of Boston opened up the standard for today's modern public libraries. This became the standard for which all cities throughout the U.S. decided to emulate. The Boston Public Library was formed with the help of school systems, in order to be the city's gathering place for all of its educational needs. -
The Standard
By the mid 1920's thousands of libraries sprung up all across the nation due to the craze for knowledge and need to get out of the depression. This created an insurance for cities to create regulations that allowed for a standard, public library to exist in each municipal community. -
The Digitalization Era Begins
THe digitalization and modernization of today's libraries started with the First White House Conference on Library and Information Services. This meeting is what started the rise of Information Literacy, through the creation of onlien journals and modern tracked resources.
