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Civic space/cyberspace
the American public library in the information age
By Molz, Redmond Kathleen & Dain, Phyllis & Molz, Kathleen
- ISBN
- 978-0-26213-346-3
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1999
Molz, currently professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Dain, now emeritus, were colleagues at the now-defunct Columbia School of Library Service. Both are also celebrated library historians. Dain's The New York Public Library: A History of Its Founding and Early Years (NYPL, 1972) is a definitive account of that august institution. Molz's National Planning for Library Service, 1935-1975 (ALA, 1984), one of my favorites, is a readable, fundamental work on the subject of the federal role in library support. The curiously inconc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
