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The Library Book

Susan Orlean

2018 ★ 4.2

The enduring library

Gorman, Michael

2003

Apostles of culture

Dee Garrison

1979

The Library Book

Nicky Wire, Lucy Mangan, Zadie Smith et al.

2012

Information Literacy and Social Justice

Lua Gregory

2013

Libraries & democracy

Nancy C. Kranich

2001

A history of modern librarianship

Wayne A. Wiegand, Pamela Spence Richards, Marija Dalbello

2015

Beyond Article 19

Julie B. Edwards, Stephan P. Edwards

2010

The Public Library

Dawson, Robert, Ann Patchett, Bill D. Moyers

2014 ★ 4.0

Sociological foundations of librarianship

Jesse Hauk Shera

1970

The meaning of the library

Alice Crawford

2015

Changing times, changing libraries

Allerton Park Institute (22nd 1976)

1978

Intellectual freedom and social responsibility in American librarianship, 1967-1974

Toni Samek

2001

Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library

Ed D'Angelo

2006

Informed Agitation

Melissa Morrone

2014

Boston Marathon Memorial Book

Boston Public Library

2013

The new librarianship field guide

R. David Lankes

2016

Library Juice Concentrate

Rory Litwin

2006

Youth-serving libraries in Japan, Russia, and the United States

N. I. Gendina, Lesley S. J. Farmer, Yuriko Nakamura

2012

In praise of libraries

Carlton C. Rochell

1989

Revolting Librarians Redux

Jessamyn C. West, KR Roberto

2003

Alternative Library Literature

James Philip Danky, Sanford Berman

1990

Libraries and the arobase

Bertram C. Bruce, Cushla Kapitzke

2006

The social transcript

Charles B. Osburn

2008

Questioning Library Neutrality

Alison M. Lewis

2008

Pathways for communication

D. J. Foskett

1984

International librarianship

K. C. Harrison

1989

Public Libraries and Social Justice

John Pateman, John Vincent

2010

The public library as public knowledge

Bob Usherwood

1989

Defending professionalism

William A. Crowley

2012

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