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Toward Seamless Access: Libraries from Alexandria Through the Digital Age

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The advent of the internet has revolutionized the ways in which libraries serve their users by facilitating the expansion of collections and enhancing access to those collections. However, though this chapter examines recent technological advancements and their implications for libraries, it reaches back to ancient times to trace how other key innovations throughout history, also ground-breaking in their respective times, have set the stage for the development of the modern library by increasing access to information. Among these developments are the invention of the Gutenberg printing press , the collocation of library materials by subject, and the use of assignment indexing .

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Havens, B., Rosenfeld, J. (2016). Toward Seamless Access: Libraries from Alexandria Through the Digital Age. In: Lee, N. (eds) Google It. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6415-4_12

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