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15,000 tablets found aranged in jars or on wooden shelfs.
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FIrst Libraries and Archives are started.
The ruins of libraries were found in temples. -
Librarians used lists to keep track of books and scriptures and help with monestary exchange.
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books used to have curses if not returned on time. Some curses having included people being held a terrible death church authorites stepped in and required more leniancy
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as early as the 1300's libraries had grown outside of monestaries and were being used in universities such as oxford.
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During uprisings against religious ruling many libaries were burned in defiance.
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Before public libraries some individuals would create quite sizeable personal libraries such that of Benjeman Franklin
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Thanks to donations most noteably by andrew carnagie many public and social libraries began popping up.
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in 814 the church sent a directive stating the human memory can not remember all the books thus a librarian should make a booklet to keep track of them.
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around 800 Libraries had become large enough they were in need of a cataloging system.
