Incursiune în fascinanta lume a bibliologiei
Incursion into the fascinated world of biblology

The history of libraries

Summary/Abstract: The necessity of being informed, educated and cultivated was the reason for creating the first collections of writings. The human history confirms the existence of such collections even during the ancient times, long before Christ. The most famous ancient librairies are: The Collection of Plates from Burnt Bricks, discovered by the english archaeologist Austin-Henry Layard in 1948 at Ninive and considered to be the oldest library of the world; the Library from Alexandria, created by Ptolemeu Soter in the 4th century B.C.; the Library from Pergam, in the 3rd century B.C.; the Library Matenadaran from Erevan, in the 5th century A.C.During the Middle Ages librairies are considered to be more and more important and they are organized on scientific bases by specialists. The history of books knows a large number of librarians, educated persons, who have dedicated their lives to culture, writings and librairies. As long as people will write, there will always be people to read, take care and love books.

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