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World Library History On the Web
Here are some sites I've come across in my pursuit of library history. No claim is made at being comprehensive. Suggest additions by contacting me at nix@libraryhistorybuff.org.
See also: American Library History on the Web
General Sites
Biographies of World Library People
http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/librarybiographies-world.htm
A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries from Curious Expeditions
http://curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html
Library History Section of IFLA
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s44/index.htm
World Library History (History Magazine
Article)
http://www.history-magazine.com/libraries.html
World Library History (Kotinos
Publications)
http://www.libraries.gr/nonmembers/en/main.htm
Library History by Country
Australia
State Library of Victoria
http://www2.slv.vic.gov.au/about/pastfuture/history/detailed/long1.html
Brief History of the University of Queensland Library
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008343/01/uqlibrary_brief_history.pdf
Brief History of the University of Sidney Library
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/uslhistory/
Canada
Libraries Today - Canadian Library
History
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~lbruce/
National Library of India
http://www.nlindia.org/history.html
Ireland
Trinity College Library Dublin
http://www.tcd.ie/Library/about/
Italy
http://www.aib.it/aib/stor/stor.htm
The Netherlands
The Bibliotheekmuseum (library museum),
Amsterdam
http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/bibliotheekmuseum.htm
Peru
Historia de la Biblioteca Central de la
Universidad de San Marcos: 1923-1966
http://www.cybertesis.edu.pe/sisbib/2008/cajas_ra/html/index-frames.html
The Philippines
Trends in Philippine Library History
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/papers/039-138e.htm
Sweden
The Biblioteksmuseet
(library museum), Borås Sweden
http://www.bimu.net/
http://www.bimu.net/english.htm
The United
Kingdom
(Assistance provided by Dr. Christopher Skelton-Foord)
Library and Information History Group
of CILIP (United Kingdom)
http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/history/
Library History Database -
The British Isles - To 1850
http://www.r-alston.co.uk/contents.htm
Association of Independent Libraries
http://fp.ailib.plus.com/
Women Library Workers in Great Britain (Evelyn Kerslake)
http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/record/r199901/kerslak.html
British Library
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/history/
British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School
of Economics and Political Science)
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/abthli/olabh.htm
Cambridge
University Library
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/History/
Chetham's Library, Manchester
http://www.chethams.org.uk/hist.htm
Durham University Library
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/about/history/
Edinburgh University Library
http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/history.shtml
Glasgow University Library
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/timeline/index.html
Innerpeffray Library, Scotland
http://www.innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/history.htm
London Library
http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/aboutus/history.htm
John Rylands University Library of
Manchester
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/information/history/
National Library of Scotland
http://www.nls.uk/helpfor/nlshistory.html
National Library of Wales
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=6
Founders' Library, University of Wales
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/founders_library/history.htm
Bodleian Library, Oxford University Libraries
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley/about/history/
Wellcome Library
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL039313.html
http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/
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