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Table of Contents, Volume 43, number 1, 2008
Articles
Promoting Citizenship: How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election
Jean L. Preer
American Library Association directors view promotional materials for the Register and Vote campaign. ALA Bulletin 46 (June 1952).
The Making of a Collection: Mesoamerican Manuscripts at Princeton University
Teresa T. Basler and David C. Wright
To "Build upon the Foundation": Charles Gayarré's Vision for the Louisiana State Library
Faye Phillips
Essays & Notes
Wishing They Were There: Old Postcards and Library History
Bernadette A. Lear
Postcard, Sargentville Public Library, Maine. Published by Hugh C. Leighton Co., printed in Germany, undated, probably 1907-1914.
Cultural Record Keepers
Bruce Rogers Book Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Amanda C. Grossman and Sammie L. Morris
Book Reviews
What is Documentation? English Translation of the Classic French Text by Suzanna Briet. Translated and edited by Ronald E. Day and Laurent Martinet with Hermina G. B. Anghelescu
Jonathan Furner
The Anglo Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge
J. G. Matthews
Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector by Donald Jackson Kerr
Ian Morrison
Confiscations at Customs: Banned Books and the French Booktrade during the Last Years of the Ancien régime by Robert L. Dawson
Robert P. Holley
A Place Not a Place: Reflections and Possibility in Museums and Libraries by David Carr
Heidi LM Jacobs
Library Daylight: Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922 edited by Rory Litwin
Steven E. Bales
How to Think about Information by Dan Schiller
Millie Jackson
Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong
Marja Smolenaars
Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow
Michael Dzanko
The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Todd Jermstad
Table of Contents, Volume 42, number 4, 2007
Articles
The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity
Birdie MacLennan
The Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, in 2004. Photo by the author.
In Their Own Image: The Public Library Collection as a Reflection
of Its Donors
Suzanne M. Stauffer
Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library
Ethelene Whitmire
Regina Anderson Andrews, left, was the first African American to head a branch library in the New York Public Library system. She was appointed in 1938. Reprinted with permission from the Schomburg Center for the Study of Black Culture, New York.
Essays & Notes
Responses to the Resurrection of Miss Ruth Brown: An Essay on the Reception of a Historical Case Study
Louise S. Robbins
The History of the Library in Western Civilization: A Review Essay
David B. Gracy II
Burning Books: A Review Essay
Stanley Chodorow
In Memoriam: Robert L. Dawson (1943-2007)
Bette W. Oliver
Cultural Record Keepers
The New York Mercantile Library and Its Home Delivery Service
Larry Nix
Book Reviews
From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale by Bette W. Oliver
Mary Niles Maack
Leuven University Library, 1425-2000 edited by Chris Coppens, Mark Derez, and Jan Roegiers
Fred M. Heath
Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, foreword by Elizabeth Long
Mary Niles Maack
The World of a Seventeenth-Century Book Collector: The Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem by Erlend de Groot
Michael Dzanko
International Masonic Periodicals, 1738-2005: A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J. by Larissa P. Watkins
Michael LaMagna
States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States by Oz Frankel
Elizabeth Peterson
The SP Century: Boston's Society of Printers through One Hundred Years of Change by Scott-Martin Kosofsky
Matthew Z. Heintzelman
Volume 42, number 3, 2007
Volume 42, number 2, 2007
Volume 42, number 1, 2007
Volume 41, number 4, 2006
Volume 41, number 3, 2006
Volume 41, number 2, 2006
Volume 41, number 1, 2006
Special Issue: The Woman's Building Library of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
Volume 40, number 4, 2005
Volume 40, number 3, 2005
Perceiving the Past: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Donald G. Davis, Jr.
