The document summarizes the history and development of libraries from the 15th century Renaissance period to modern times. It discusses the founding of early libraries in Italy and their role in supporting humanist scholars. It then outlines the establishment of major libraries in the 16th-17th centuries across Europe, including the Bodleian Library and British Museum. The document defines different types of libraries such as national libraries, research libraries, reference libraries, public libraries, academic libraries, children's libraries, special libraries, and radical reference libraries.

1. RENAISSANCE
Prepared to:
Mam Augusta Rosario A. Villamater
Prepared by:
Hannah May Rosales

2. From 15th century:
•Malatestiana library was founded by Malatesta
Novello
• The Papal collections were brought together by
Pope Nicholas V.
•libraries of humanist and their enlightened patrons
provided a nucleus around which an "academy" of
scholars congregated in each Italian city of
consequence.

3. In the 16th and 17th century:
•Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a
cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable
magnificence.
• the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo
Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of
Cesare Baronio
• the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian
Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in
Counter-Reformation Rome
• the Biblioteca Alessandrina which Pope Alexander
VII endowed the University of Rome; the Biblioteca
Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate; and
finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the
bibliophile Clement XII Corsini

4. From 17th century and 18th century: (golden age of
libraries)
Important libraries were founded such as:
•Bodleian Library at Oxford
•the British Museum Library in London
•the Mazarine Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-
Geneviève in Paris
•Austrian National Library in Vienna, the National
Central Library in Florence, the Prussian State Library
in Berlin, the Załuski Library in Warsaw and the M.E.
Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library of St
Petersburg

5. National Libraries
• serves as national repository of information
• rarely allow citizens to borrow books
Research Libraries
• contains an in-depth collection of material on one or
more subjects
• supports scholarly research
• most often an academic or national library
• can be either reference library, which does not lend
its holdings or a lending library, which does lend all or
some of its holdings.

6. Reference Libraries
• does not lend books and other items; instead, they
must be read at the library itself.
• historical and unique
Examples of reference libraries:
1. British Library in London
2. Bodleian Library at Oxford University
Reference sections may be referred to as
“reading rooms” which may also include newspapers
and periodicals

7. Radical Reference Libraries
• libraries that are committed to social justice.
• committed to ensuring that activists and reporters had
to access to information they might need.
Year 2004 - the first Radical Reference library was
created for the Republican Convention
Public or public lending library
• provides a service to the general public and makes at
least some of its books available for borrowing
• serves as community organizations that provide free
services and events to the public, such as reading groups
and toddler story time.

8. The American Library Association - continues to play a
major role in libraries to this day, with its public library
focused division
Stack system - which involved keeping a library’s
collection of books in a space separate from the reading
room
Academic Libraries
• to provide resources and research support for students
and faculty of the educational institution
• generally located on the campuses of colleges and
universities and serve primarily the students and faculty
of that and other academic institutions
• hosted in post-secondary educational institutions,
such as colleges and universities.

9. • provides a quiet study space for students on campus; it
may also provide group study space, such as meeting
rooms.
Children’s Libraries
• special collections of books intended for juvenile
readers and usually kept in separate rooms of general
public libraries.
• educational agency seeking to acquaint the young with
the world’s literature and to cultivate a love for reading.
Popular programs offered in public libraries are:
Summer reading programs for children, families and
adults

10. Special Libraries
• may or may not be accessible to some identified part
of the general life.
• distinguished from special collections, which are
branches or parts of a library intended for rare books,
manuscripts, and other special materials.
• branches of a large academic or research libraries
dealing with particular subjects.

11. National Libraries

12. Public lending libraries

13. Academic Libraries