The Library of Congress and the Center for the Book
Subtitle: historical essays in honor of John Y. Cole
By: edited by Mary Niles Maack
Publisher: Library of Congress in association with the University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780844495255
Subjects: Books and reading; Library of Congress; Library of Congress. Center for the Book
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : John Y. Cole : librarian, bookman, and scholar / Mary Niles Maack; title: The history and historiography of the Library of Congress : the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, reflections on its origins and early history / John Y. Cole; title: Histories of the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin; title: Properly arranged and properly recorded : the Library of Congress Archives / Josephus Nelson; title: The Center for the Book : the national and international roles of the Center for the Book / Guy Lamolinara; title: The Center for the Book and the history of the book / Eleanor F. Shevlin and Eric N. Lindquist; title: The history of books, reading, and publishing : "the choice of books," Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the ideology; title: Of reading, and literary collections at the Library of Congress in the 1870s / Carl Ostrowski; title: The Library of Congress in 1892 : Ainsworth Spofford, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, and Uncle Tom's Cabin; title: Michael Winship; title: "Wake up and read!" : book promotion and National Library Week, 1958 / Jean Preer; title: International perspectives : the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the global exchange of government documents, 1834-1889 / Nancy E. Gwinn; title: International trends in library history / Donald G. Davis.