Re:Oldest Libraries in the World
by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:57AM
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Not all modern libraries are public. Many academic and law libraries are not public. So too there are internal libraries maintained by state organizations, mostly military, which are not public access. But there are all still "libraries".
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Of course. I'm just saying that while cultures have been cobbling together collections of stuff since time immemorial -- doubtless there were archives much older than these -- the really interesting innovation didn't occur until the Renaissance. Yet this article doesn't even mention it.
Re:Oldest Libraries in the World
by michaericalribo on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:49AM
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That is one interesting innovation, but not the only interesting innovation: centralized repos of knowledge, scribes used to copy and thus distribute handwritten books, a dedicated focus to literacy(even by just a few privileged individuals)...those are all fascinating.
Re:Oldest Libraries in the World
by chrisseaton on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:43PM
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> Yet this article doesn't even mention it.
Yes because it's specifically about the older ones, and as you say your innovation is from... newer ones.