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"The Whole Tragedy of Leisure in Penury": The South Wales Miners' Institute Libraries during the Great Depression

Chris Baggs
pp. 115-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0024
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"This Year -- Richmond!": The 1936 Meeting of the American Library Association

Jean L. Preer
pp. 137-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0038
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The Genesis of the Modern Academic Library in China: Western Influences and the Chinese Response

Jing Liao
pp. 161-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0032
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The Literature of American Library History, 2001-2002

Edward A. Goedeken
pp. 175-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0029
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The Cover

Nathan E. Bender
pp. 212-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0025
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Libraries as Agencies of Culture (review)

Daniel F. Ring
pp. 219-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0039
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Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa (review)

Eric Lupfer
pp. 222-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0033
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From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing and Bookselling 1501-2001 (review)

Lynn Makau
pp. 223-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0034
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Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach (review)

Joanne Ellen Passet
pp. 225-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0037
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Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary (review)

Michael Levine-Clark
pp. 227-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0031
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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: The Life and Works of the Shakespearean Scholar and Bookman (review)

Eileen Abrahams
pp. 228-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0022
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Books in the Blood: Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller (review)

Douglas Eskew
pp. 230-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0028
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The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's Immortal Poem (review)

Alan L. Chan
pp. 231-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0026
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The Victorian Illustrated Book (review)

Miriam Murtuza
pp. 232-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0036
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The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House 1876-1981 (review)

Jacob Scheick
pp. 234-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0040
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The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History (review)

Katherine C. Adams
pp. 235-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0023
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Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline (review)

Glynn Harmon
pp. 237-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0030
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The Dynamics of Change: A History of the Washington State Library (review)

Jen Stevens
pp. 239-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0041
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On Doing Local History (review)

Mike Strom
pp. 240-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0042
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Time Capsules: A Cultural History (review)

Robert N. Matuozzi
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0035
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Contributors

pp. 217-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2004.0027
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