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The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the library collection at the Scandinavian Association in Rome. Data were gathered from the library catalog and then [...]

The history of women in the West includes little about women as librarians. Librarians who came West were looking for professional and administrative opportunities away from the established centers of [...]

This essay is an analysis of the history of how, when, and if five small public libraries in the rural Midwest acquired ten controversial books published between 1885 and 1951. [...]

Established as a legislative library in 1800 to support the U.S. Congress when it moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress--retaining its original name and primary legislative [...]

This study explores the impact of funding for library-related projects from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the Works Progress Administration on the availability of library services and reading materials for [...]

Digitization has brought significant benefit to the users of special collections. It will also challenge the relative value given to paper originals of rare materials as digital holdings increase. Special [...]

The celebration of the Navy Department Library's two hundred-year anniversary revitalized an important symbol, its bookplate, and provided an opportunity to investigate the library's history, promote its valuable collections, and [...]

Youth services librarianship--a term that encompasses all library services to youth (children and young adults, ages zero to eighteen) in school and public library settings--has long been considered the classic [...]

In late-nineteenth-century America, access to print varied widely between urban and rural areas. The Wisconsin Free Library Commission (WFLC) set out to provide reading materials to Wisconsin's rural inhabitants through [...]

The question of a national library received much attention in antebellum America, with a number of writers calling for one to be established either at the Library of Congress or [...]

Denied the use of the Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library, African American leaders organized their own public library in a high school in 1909. Working through native Houstonian Emmett J. [...]

Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach. Edited by Robert S. Freeman and David V. Hovde. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2003. x, 245 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-7864-1359-X. We live [...]