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crln-8262	Eberhart, George M.	New Publications	2009-10-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1120	57	63	The Library: An Illustrated History, by Stu- art A. P. Murray (310 pages, July 2009), of- fers a well-balanced and colorful overview of library collections from the royal library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal to LC’s World Digital Library. Murray ranges widely to cover early Islamic libraries, as well as the scholarly collections of Timbuktu and the Mughal and Ottoman Empires; Europe- an libraries in the Middle Ages and Renais- sance; libraries in colonial North America; Melvil Dewey’s energetic Library Move- ment and Andrew Carnegie’s funding that both contributed to the public library as we know it today; and summary descriptions of 50 world-class libraries in operation now.	cache/crln-8262.pdf	txt/crln-8262.txt