The meaning of the library: a cultural history

The Library Through Time. Adventures in ancient Greek and Roman libraries / Edith Hall ; The image of the medieval library / Richard Gameson ; The Renaissance library and the challenge of print / Andrew Pettegree ; From printing shop to bookshelves: how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries / Robert Darnton ; "The advantages of literature" : the subscription library in Georgian Britain / David Allan ; Literature and the library in the nineteenth century / John Sutherland.

The Library in Imagination.

The library in fiction / Marina Warner ; The library in poetry / Robert Crawford ; The library in film: order and mystery / Laura Marcus.

The Library Now and in the Future.

"Casting and gathering" : libraries, archives, and the modern writer / Stephen Enniss ; Meanings of the library today / John P. Wilkin ; The modern library and global democracy / James H. Billington.