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Table of Contents, Volume 43, number 2, 2008

Articles   

Preparing for an Air Attack: Libraries and American Air Raid Defense During World War II
Brett Spencer

The Yellow Register Archives of Imperial Ming China
Wenxian Zhang

Sketch map of the Yellow Register Archives of the Ming Dynasty on islands in Houhu Lake near Nanjing, China. From Annals of Houhu Lake, ce 2, j. 2. Original located at the People's University, Beijing, China.

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Western Canadiana at McGill University: The Formation of a Rare Book Collection
Peter F. McNally

Bernard Amtmann, antiquarian book dealer and agent for Nathan Arkin . University of Regina Special Collections and Archives Photograph Collection 80-8, Photograph 23.

 

Essays & Notes

The Ambiguous Origins of the Archival Principle of “Provenance”
Shelley Sweeney

Cultural Record Keepers

Cultural Record Keepers: The Myron Eells Northwest History Collection, Whitman College
Michael J. Paulus

Book Reviews

The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie
David C. Weber

Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages by Alex Wright
Edward A. Goedeken

Political Pressure and the Archival Record edited by Margaret Proctor, Michael Cook, and Caroline Williams
Robert N. Matuozzi

The Alexandria Library Company by William Seale
Patrick M. Valentine

The Library of Leander van Ess & the Earliest American Collections of Reformation Pamphlets by Milton McC. Gatch
Michael Dzanko

Personal versus Private: Presidential Records in a Legislative Context: A Bibliographic Exploration by Peter Sezzi
Peter Haligas

La bibliothèque parisienne de Gabriel Naudé en 1630: Les lectures d'un libertin érudit by Estelle Boeuf
Brett B. Bodemer

Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education, and the Public Good by Ed D'Angelo
James Jesson

Library Juice Concentrate edited by Rory Litwin
Lynne M. Thomas

Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century edited by Hugh H. Genoways
Kelly Lynn Anders

Law Libraries and the Formation of the Legal Profession in the Late Middle Ages edited by Stanley Chodorow
Renate Chancellor

The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, & America by Richard B. Sher
Greg Matthews

Our Very Illustrious Brother, Abraham Lincoln: A Bibliography of the Louis D. Carman Lincolniana Collection in the Library of the Supreme Council, 33° S.J. by Larissa P. Watkins
Emma Louise Kilkelly

L'Europe de Gutenberg: Le livre et l'invention de la modernité occidentale by Frédéric Barbier
Jim Chevallier

Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915 by Steven L. Grafe
John E. Dockall