In this Issue

Table of Contents

"The Great Fiction Bore": Free Libraries and the Construction of a Reading Public in England, 1880-1914

Mary Hammond
pp. 83-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0026
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Books for the Use of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1783 and 1800

Tom Glynn, Craig C. Hagensick
pp. 109-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0023
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The Cairo Genizah: A Medieval Mediterranean Deposit and a Modern Cambridge Archive

Stefan C. Reif
pp. 123-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0033
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Passing the Torch: Haynes McMullen's American Library History Database and American Libraries Before 1876

Bill Olbrich
pp. 132-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0031
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The Literature of American Library History, 1999-2000

Edward A. Goedeken
pp. 138-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0024
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The Cover

Jean Hort
p. 175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0021
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Scientific Communication in History (review)

Julie Hallmark
pp. 183-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0025
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Libraries in the Ancient World (review)

Du Toit, Jaqueline S
pp. 186-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0022
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Encyclopedia of Monasticism (review)

Mikail McIntosh-Doty
pp. 188-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0028
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Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (review)

Christine McArdle Reno
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0034
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Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern Central Europe (review)

James P. Niessen
pp. 192-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0030
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The Public Library in Britain, 1914-2000 (review)

Peter F. McNally
pp. 194-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0029
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Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974 (review)

Frederick J. Stielow
pp. 196-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0036
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Gendering Library History (review)

James Vinson Carmichael Jr.
pp. 197-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0018
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An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 (review)

Charles Caldwell Ryrie
pp. 200-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0035
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A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States (review)

Trysh Travis
pp. 201-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0037
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The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and Its Creators, and: Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America (review)

Joanne Ellen Passet
pp. 203-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0032
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Academic Library Centrality: User Success Through Service, Access, and Tradition, and: The Reference Encounter: Interpersonal Communication in the Library (review)

Kanwal Ameen
pp. 204-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0017
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Architectural Books in Early America: Architectural Treaties and Building Handbooks Available in American Libraries and Bookstores through 1800 (review)

Dell Upton
pp. 207-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0038
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Civic Librarianship: Renewing the Social Mission of the Public Library (review)

Mark Youngblood Herring
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0027
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Communications

Gordon Moran
pp. 211-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0019
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Contributors

pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2002.0020
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