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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hermann Köstler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2004-06-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Online Access:http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7776/