Names: ____________________ AND ___________________________________ Class: ____
Homepage
Hunt - - - History of Libraries (books and printing)
BOOKS
Use the online catalog to find how many books we have on the history of libraries
Type in LIBRARIES and click on SUBJECT, find the one that includes HISTORY. How many? ____
Use the POWER button and type in LIBRARIES on one line and HISTORY on the other. How many? _____
REFERENCE – Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia with MAPS, PICTURES, and DICTIONARY
The
first library was in
What is the name of the present
day country that where
Click on the map. What 3 bodies of water – 3 seas - surround the area
_______________Sea ___________________Sea __________________Sea _________________Sea
Around
300 BC, the most famous library in ancient times was the Alexandrian Library in
The library housed more than 500,000 scrolls mostly made of papyrus.
Click on the picture. How is the current day library designed, in the shape of a ___________________
Later, writing was no longer done on papyrus, but vellum or parchment.
It was cheaper and easier to use and could be written on both sides.
Use the DICTIONARIES part of Grolier's online encyclopedia
What kind of animal skin is vellum or parchment made from? __________________________________
Writing was at done at first still on scrolls, but soon it became easier to cut it and form books.
In the middle ages, monks in monasteries made copies of books and kept them in book cupboards, or book cases. The word “bibliotecha” in Greek means “book cases” and so does “librarium” in Latin
By the 1200s universities were started that had
their own libraries, spreading reading and writing beyond the church. And in the 1440s, Gutenberg invented the printing
press and movable type, making the production of books much easier, and books
more available to the common person. In 1800s came the invention of the cylinder
printing press increasing book production even higher. Books were everywhere,
and libraries
separate from church and universities were started, the beginning of the modern
public library both in
INTERNET
By the early 1900s, there were even the early concept of bookmobiles, or mobile libraries.
Use the INTERNET to search for “History of Mobile Libraries”. Use GOOGLE
What
year was the first bookmobile? ___________ In
MAGAZINES
What is happening in the news currently about libraries?
Use PROQUEST DIRECT and type in Seattle Public Library.
Title of the news article _______________________________________________________
Title of newspaper or magazine: _________________________________________ Dated: ______________
LOCAL
LIBRARIES
See is there is a copy of the book The Library Book at the Seattle Public Library.
What is the SUBTITLE of this book ____________________________________Is it available? ________