THOMAS AUGST is associate professor of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. KENNETH CARPENTER is emeritus editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, Houghton Library.
This is a first-rate publication. It adds to the scholarly literature on the history of libraries and reading, and provides us with a dozen interesting and well-done case studies cutting across a variety of types of libraries, ethnic and racial groups, women, technological issues, and eras.... The book will appeal to historians of reading and libraries and to librarians interested in the origins of their institutions. - Richard J. Cox, University of Pittsburgh ""A much-needed addition to the field of library history, a field in which a great deal of research remains to be done. It will be useful also to cultural historians and scholars interested in the history of the book.... One of the real strengths of the work is the fact that it addresses issues from colonial times up to the present and into the future, presenting an overview of current scholarship in the field."" - Thomas G. Knoles, American Antiquarian Society
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