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Reena Kapoor, Lovely Professional University Unit 1: Library in Social Context

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Unit 1: Library in Social Context

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction

1.1 Modern Library
1.2 Information Society

1.3 Development of the Information Society
1.4 Summary

1.5 Keywords

1.6 Review Questions
1.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Define information society
• Explain development of the information society
• Discuss modern library.

Introduction

The Modern Library is a publishing company. Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright
as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright.

Modern library was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

Random House began in 1927 as a subsidiary of the Modern Library, but eventually became the
parent company.
The Modern Library originally published only hardbound books. In 1950, it began publishing the
Modern Library College Editions, a forerunner of its current series of paperback classics. From 1955
to 1960, the company published a quality numbered paperback series, but discontinued it in 1960,
when the series was folded into the newly acquired Vintage paperbacks group. The Modern Library
homepage says:
In 1992, on the occasion of the Modern Library’s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House embarked
on an ambitious project to refurbish the series. We revived the torchbearer emblem that Cerf and

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