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1. Michael H. Harris, “The Purpose of the American Public Library: A
Revisionist Interpretation of History,” Library Journal 98 (September 1973):
2509–14.
2. Jesse Shera, Foundations of the Public Library: The Origins of the Public Library
Movement in New England, 1629–1855 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).
Quotation taken from p. 248.
3. Sidney Ditzion, Arsenals of a Democratic Culture: A Social History of the
American Public Library Movement in New England and the Middle Atlantic States from
1850 to 1900 (Chicago: American Library Association, 1947).
4. Laurel A. Grotzinger, The Power and the Dignity: Librarianship and Katharine
Sharp (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1966).
5. Dee Garrison, Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society,
1876–1920 (New York: Free Press, 1979).
6. Phyllis Dain, The New York Public Library: A History of Its Founding and Early
Years (New York: New York Public Library, 1972).
7. This project is discussed in Kenneth E. Carpenter, Readers and Libraries:
Toward a History of Libraries and Culture in America (Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 1996); and Wayne A. Wiegand, “Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots: What
the Past Tells Us about the Present: Reflections on the Twentieth-Century
History of American Librarianship,” Library Quarterly 69 (January 1999): 1–32.
8. Michael H. Harris, “The Year’s Work in American Library History, 1967,”
Journal of Library History 3 (October 1968): 342–52; Edward A. Goedeken, “The
Literature of American Library History, 1995–1996,” Libraries & Culture 33 (Fall
1998): 407–45.
9. Michael H. Harris and Donald G. Davis, Jr., American Library History: A
Bibliography (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978); Donald G. Davis, Jr., and
John Mark Tucker, American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature
(Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1989).
10. Michael H. Harris, A Guide to Research in American Library History, 2d ed.
(Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974); Arthur P. Young, American Library History:
A Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses, 3d ed., rev. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow
Press, 1988).
11. Larry J. Barr, Haynes McMullen, and Steven G. Leach, Libraries in
American Periodicals before 1876: A Bibliography with Abstracts and an Index (Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1983); Robert G. Winans, A Descriptive Checklist of Book
Catalogues Separately Printed in America, 1693–1800 (Worcester, Mass.: American
Antiquarian Society, 1981); Robert L. Singerman, American Library Book
Catalogues, 1801–1875: A National Bibliography (Urbana: University of Illinois
Graduate School of Library and Information Science Occasional Papers Nos.
203, 204, April 1996).
12. Robert Wedgeworth, ed., World Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Services (Chicago: American Library Association, 1993); Wayne A. Wiegand and
Donald G. Davis, Jr., Encyclopedia of Library History (New York: Garland Publishing,
1994).
13. John Feather and Paul Sturges, International Encyclopedia of Information and
Library Science (London: Routledge, 1997); Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1968–).
14. Latest in a long line is Michael H. Harris, History of Libraries in the Western
World, 4th ed. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995).
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