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Every new edition...is a significant improvement of an already useful reference book...All library schools, education programs, history departments, and individuals studying American library history should acquire or have access to this useful publication...invaluable service...Professor Young deserves our gratitude. Arba ...a work of enormous and painstaking scholarship...A splendid piece of book production. Library Association Record, (Uk) ...a leaping departure in comprehensiveness, organizational format, and accessibility through indexing...The indexes are all that one could hope for in such a work...a magnificent contribution to the study of American library history...His meticulous work will stand as a model for similar efforts in other fields. Libraries and Culture

Every new edition...is a significant improvement of an already useful reference book...All library schools, education programs, history departments, and individuals studying American library history should acquire or have access to this useful publication...invaluable service...Professor Young deserves our gratitude. American Reference Books Annual ...a work of enormous and painstaking scholarship...A splendid piece of book production. Library Association Record, (Uk) ...a leaping departure in comprehensiveness, organizational format, and accessibility through indexing...The indexes are all that one could hope for in such a work...a magnificent contribution to the study of American library history...His meticulous work will stand as a model for similar efforts in other fields. Libraries and Culture

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Arthur Young (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Dean of University Libraries, University of Rhode Island. He has published Books for Sammies: The American Library Association and World War I (Beta Phi Mu, 1981) and Higher Education in American Life, 1936-1986: A Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses (Greenwood, 1988). His articles and reviews have appeared in College & Research Libraries, Journal of Library History, Library Quarterly, and Reference Quarterly.

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