The English word library probably comes from the Latin term libraria for shop, from the time when books were sold, not lent, in bookstores. The French and Portuguese words for bookstore are, to this day, librairie and livraria. The Latin word for book is liber, or the bark of a tree, from when bark was used as paper. The French word for library bibliothèque and the Portuguese biblioteca come from the time when a collection of books was regarded as a centre of knowledge . Compare that with the super new turbo- language of 2003: knowledge centre ! The biblio part is Greek for the papyrus reed which was flattened to form paper; the name was given to Byblos, the world s first paper-making town 3,000 years ago, in what is now Leban...
Occasional Paper No. 2 Wordlists for Libraries and Closely Related Phenomena in Different Manuscrip...
La rubrique - "work in progress" - de Libraria.fr propose d'inventorier et d'analyser le vocabulaire...
The aim of this master thesis is to examine the Swedish term for reading promotion, läsfrämjande, an...
The English word library probably comes from the Latin term libraria for shop, from the time whe...
Bibliophilism or bibliomania ? – Book lovers existed since the beginnings of books, but, at least in...
The word library is a derivative of the Latin word "Liber" meaning Book. At the earliest beginning, ...
Aus Anlass der britischen Diskussion um Bibliotheksschließungen hat der britische Linguist David Cry...
In the library profession there is abundant use of jargon and acronyms to describe library activitie...
Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενοThe form of the "Greek library" is distinguished from the "Roman library,"...
In France people using libraries are generally called "usagers" i.e. users (not very original) or "...
From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, schola...
"From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, schol...
Understanding a discipline requires a fundamental understanding of its terminology. The terminology ...
Ulrich Ricken : The lexical field «science — literature » in french and german. The modern notion o...
The Centre for the book and reading cannot do anything without libraries, the first way for reading ...
Occasional Paper No. 2 Wordlists for Libraries and Closely Related Phenomena in Different Manuscrip...
La rubrique - "work in progress" - de Libraria.fr propose d'inventorier et d'analyser le vocabulaire...
The aim of this master thesis is to examine the Swedish term for reading promotion, läsfrämjande, an...
The English word library probably comes from the Latin term libraria for shop, from the time whe...
Bibliophilism or bibliomania ? – Book lovers existed since the beginnings of books, but, at least in...
The word library is a derivative of the Latin word "Liber" meaning Book. At the earliest beginning, ...
Aus Anlass der britischen Diskussion um Bibliotheksschließungen hat der britische Linguist David Cry...
In the library profession there is abundant use of jargon and acronyms to describe library activitie...
Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενοThe form of the "Greek library" is distinguished from the "Roman library,"...
In France people using libraries are generally called "usagers" i.e. users (not very original) or "...
From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, schola...
"From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, schol...
Understanding a discipline requires a fundamental understanding of its terminology. The terminology ...
Ulrich Ricken : The lexical field «science — literature » in french and german. The modern notion o...
The Centre for the book and reading cannot do anything without libraries, the first way for reading ...
Occasional Paper No. 2 Wordlists for Libraries and Closely Related Phenomena in Different Manuscrip...
La rubrique - "work in progress" - de Libraria.fr propose d'inventorier et d'analyser le vocabulaire...
The aim of this master thesis is to examine the Swedish term for reading promotion, läsfrämjande, an...