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An expansive overview of our storehouses of knowledge, from the earliest library building (Philadelphia, 1745) to midcentury modern and beyond. Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library remains a powerful site for discovery, and its form is still determined by the geometry of the book and the architectural spaces devised to store and display it. American Libraries provides a history and panorama of these much-loved structures, inside and out, encompassing the small personal collection, the vast university library, and everything in between. Through 500 photographs and plans selected from the encyclopedic collections of the Library of Congress, Kenneth Breisch traces the development of libraries in the United States, from roots in such iconic examples as the British Library and Paris's Bibliotheque-Ste.-Genevieve to institutions imbued with their own American mythology. Starting with the private collections of wealthy merchants and landowners during the eighteenth century, the book looks at the Library of Congress, large and small public libraries, and the Carnegie libraries, and it ends with a glimpse of modern masterworks.

Library architecture --- Library buildings --- Libraries --- History --- United States --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- 02 <09> <73> --- 02 <09> <73> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Library architecture - United States - History --- Library buildings - United States - History --- Libraries - United States - History --- Library architecture - History - United States --- Libraries - History - United States --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques (constructions)

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Explores the creation and significance of an exhibit hall at the 1893 world's fair that contained more than 8,000 volumes of writings by women.

Literature --- Women authors --- Libraries --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Authors, Women --- Female authors --- Women as authors --- Authors --- Women and literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authorship --- Exhibitions. --- History --- Woman's Building (World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago, Ill.) --- 02 <09> <73> --- 028-055.2 --- 028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers --- Vrouwelijke lezers --- 02 <09> <73> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Women authors&delete& --- Exhibitions --- E-books

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"The Frick Art Reference Library, founded by Helen Clay Frick, has been part of the international infrastructure of art history since its inception. It has always been innovative--with its photographic field trips, periodical indexing, involvement in the founding of the international photo archive consortium, PHAROS, web archiving, and digital art history. The library is looking back at its work over the last hundred years through one hundred objects, not just from its extensive collection of books, auction catalogs, photographs and archives, but through its spaces, artworks and the traces of some of its actors: Helen Clay Frick herself obviously, but also her French agent Madame Brière, and librarians such as Pauline Wells or Doriece Colle"--Publisher.

collections [object groupings] --- art libraries [institutions] --- Frick Art Reference Library [New York, N.Y.] --- Art libraries --- Frick Art Reference Library. --- Frick Collection. --- Frick Collection, New York. --- Frick Art Reference Library, New York --- Frick Collection --- Special libraries --- 02 <09> <73> --- 82:7 --- 82:7 Literatuur en kunst --- Literatuur en kunst --- 02 <09> <73> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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02 <09> <73> --- 727.8 --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bibliotheekgebouwen. Gebouwen voor documentatie. Archiefgebouwen. Octrooikantoorgebouwen --- 727.8 Bibliotheekgebouwen. Gebouwen voor documentatie. Archiefgebouwen. Octrooikantoorgebouwen --- 02 <09> <73> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Books and reading --- Cole, John Young, --- Cole, John Y. --- Library of Congress. --- Center for the Book in the Library of Congress --- Center for the Book (Library of Congress) --- Amerika Gikai Toshokan --- Beikoku Gikai Toshokan --- Biblioteca del Congreso --- Biblioteca del Congresso --- Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos --- Biblioteka Kongressa --- Biblioteka Konhresu SShA --- Bibliothèque du Congrès --- Congressional Library --- Kongressiĭn Nomyn San --- L of C --- LC (Library of Congress) --- Library of the Congress of the United States of America --- Library of the United States --- Mei-kuo kuo hui tʻu shu kuan --- Sifriyat ha-Ḳongres --- U.S. Library of Congress --- United States. Congress. --- United States. Library of Congress --- Конгрессийн Номын Сан --- 國會圖書館 --- United States. Congress. Library