Guiding Questions and Ideas

I had two rough ideas that I could research:

1. I could look at school libraries and how their content has changed as the expectation of what education should be has changed throughout history.
2. The rise in private libraries and how they might’ve changed the way knowledge within books were thought of, as well as accessibility.

For my first idea I could compare pictures of architecture of older school libraries vs. modern to get a feel for what the architecture might say about the attitude surrounding knowledge of the time. Then I could look at databases and see what knowledge has been censored throughout history, or look through old education magazine editions and see the differences in approaches to teaching that are advertised.

For my second, I could look at the rise of private libraries going back to the renaissance and see how books were gotten a hold of before that. I could look at who has access to them and what knowledge was considered worthy to curate.