Zentralbibliothek Zürich: A new library - ten years after
On the sixth of February 1629, four young citizens of Zurich founded a library that was open to the public: the Stadtbibliothek, or 'city library'. Because the library grew so quickly, the city council relocated it to the Wasserkirche, a church dating from the late Middle Ages that had bee...
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Language: | English |
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2004-06-01
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Series: | Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries |
Online Access: | http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7776/ |