World First Book Library

The world s oldest known library was founded sometime in the 7th century b c.

World first book library. Located in nineveh in modern day iraq the site. For the royal contemplation of the assyrian ruler ashurbanipal. Our collection of scholarly and academic articles have been curated from every field of study with a extra focus on education science sociology and technology.

The history of the books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s contributors to the discipline include specialists from the fields of textual scholarship codicology bibliography philology palaeography art history social history and cultural history its key purpose is to demonstrate that the book as an object not just the text contained within it is a conduit of. Norwich lays claims to being the first municipality to adopt the public libraries act 1850 which allowed any municipal borough with a population of 100 000 or more to introduce a halfpenny rate to establish public libraries although not to buy books. The library of ashurbanipal established 668 627 bc in nineveh near modern mosul iraq long considered to be the first systematically collected library was rediscovered in the 19th century.