Libraries in the Ancient World

Writing in the ancient world is considered a strong skill, the scribe is a very important person, not much has been found. Beginning with the Mesopotamian society, scribes need to send messages, tell the news, cancel the king's orders, register the law, write religious sentences and entertain people with books. "The scribes of Mesopotamia are nobles and have power," Manguel 180. Past textbooks were found in wealthy families, not poor people and ordinary people.

Egypt's Alexandria Library is the greatest and most important and wonderful library in the ancient world. It flourished under the auspices of the Ptolemy Dynasty and became a major scholarship center when the Romans built until the Romans conquered Egypt in the third century BC. This library was invented and opened during the reign of Ptolemy I (323-283 BC) or during the reign of his son Ptolemy II (BC 283 - 266 BC). Early organizational structure entered into force in Alexandria

In Mesopotamia, 530 BC, there was the first recorded museum, the Ennigaldi-Nanna Museum. Originally built for the purpose of learning and art, the concept of architecture and libraries is integrated. And the most famous ancient world library is in Alexandria, Egypt. Since then, wealthy museum has preserved historical relics for families. Ulisse Aldrovandi provided the basic principles of collection in the 16th century Italy. And it gathered all the contents of interest and displayed them in random order. This concept later replaced the specialization of museums, natural history museums and others.

It is used not only as a collection of manuscripts like ancient libraries but also as a center for education and dissemination of science and ideas, as a center for conferences and discussions, as public libraries and lending libraries. As a student or boarding school student dormitory. The Middle Ages Islamic Library also introduced the concept of library catalogs categorized into specific types and categories.