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The first library in the world is the Nineveh library in ancient Egypt built by King Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC.
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10 Interesting Fact About The History of Libraries
10 Interesting Fact About The History of Libraries
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The first library in the world is the Nineveh library in ancient Egypt built by King Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC.
The library founded by Julius Caesar in Rome in the 1st century AD is the second library known in the world.
The first library in the United States is a library in Charleston, South Carolina, which opened in 1698.
The first library in the UK is the Bodleian Library in Oxford, which was founded in 1602.
The largest library in the world is the Chinese National Library located in Beijing.
The first library in the world that uses a computerized system is the New York Public Library library in 1971.
In 1876, Charles AMMI Cutter published the book The Principles of Library Economy which became the first reference book in the library field.
In 1883, Melvil Dewey made a dewey system, a classification system for libraries that are still used today.
In 1928, Kenneth G. Anderson built a National Catalogization System (NLS) to sail all libraries in the United States.
In 1969, the first computerized system to arrange books in the library was introduced in the Vanderbilt Library.
