American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature

A thorough treatment containing some 7,000 entries, each one introduced by a bibliographic essay.

Among the chapter titles are: Private libraries and reading tastes; Predecessors of the public library; Academic, school, and state libraries; Women in librarianship; and Archival enterprise. 

In addition, citations to about 850 biographies of library figures are included. Divided by subject, period or geographic place, as appropriate, the chapters are arranged chronologically by year of publication and alphabetically by author within each year. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Ex-library copy in very good condition