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Table of Contents, Volume 44, number 3, 2009

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Articles

Wheat and Chaff: Carl Roden, Abe Korman, and the Definitions of Intellectual Freedom in the Chicago Public Library
Joyce Latham

Bookmobile patrons "How Can We Fail"? Texas State Library’s Traveling Libraries and Bookmobiles, 1916-1966
Jennifer Cummings

Rural patrons in front of a Texas State Library bookmobile, Valley Springs, Texas, in the late 1950s. Photo courtesy of Texas State Library and Archives

Essays & Notes

Enhancing the Cultural Record: Recent Trends and Issues in the History of Information Science and Technology
Robert V. Williams

Information Organization and the Mysterious Information User
Francis Miksa

Cultural Record Keepers

The English Book Donation, Chicago Public Library
Constance J. Gordon

Book Reviews

Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the
United States edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter
Robert Sidney Martin

Readers’ Advisory Service in North American Public Libraries,
1870-2005: A History and Critical Analysis by Juris Dilevko and
Candice F.C.McGowan
Kenneth Potts

A Nation of Readers:The Lending Library in Georgian England
by David Allan
Ian Morrison

Restoring Order: The École des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870 by Lara Jennifer Moore
Christophe Jacobs

America’s Membership Libraries edited by Richard Wendorf
William F. Meehan III

American Architects and Their Books, 1840-1915 edited by
Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O’Gorman
David Bosse

Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
by Jennifer Summit
Herman A. Peterson

Popular History and the Literary Marketplace by Gregory M. Pfitzer
Patrick M. Valentine

Scientific Libraries: Past Development and Future Changes
by Tomas Lidman
Michael Dzanko

Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process edited
by Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan
Mildred L. Jackson

Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand edited by
Stephanie Hollis and Alexandra Barratt
Herman A. Peterson