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...the first libraries were established for scholars 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Egypt? ...early Egyptian libraries contained hard-baked clay tablets and papyrus scrolls? ...the first public library was opened in Athens, Greece, in 600 B.C.? ...in 47 B.C., when Julius Caesar burned the harbor of Alexandria, the flames destroyed 700,000 papyrus scrolls in what was one of the world's largest libraries? ...libraries grew in number when monks began copying manuscripts by hand? ...the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century helped libraries grow even more? ...the first public library in the United States was built in 1833, in Peterborough, New Hampshire? ...at least eleven libraries in the world contain 4 million volumes of books? Four of them are in the United States: The Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the libraries at Harvard and Yale universities. ...modern libraries collect films, audio and video tapes, cassettes, disks, microfilms, and even holograms?
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