📚 the library ethos - @visakanv's blog

Libraries have lent and borrowed books from the 8th century to the present, including monasteries. Teresa Miguel-Stearns, director of the Yale Law School’s Law Library, notes that in 1212, the Council of Paris “encouraged monks to establish a separate collection of books within the monastery for loan to members of their communities. This was consid

The publishing industry has suffered as bookstores vanish and print runs dwindle.