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National Library Week: Books About Libraries

This library guide provides an introduction to resources related to National Library Week.

National Library Week

Circulating Books

America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress 1800-2000 by James Conaway; Edmund Morris (Introduction by); James H. Billington (Foreword by)
Call Number: Z733.U6 C595 2000
ISBN: 0300083084
Publication Date: 2000
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
Call Number: Z659 .H22 2016
ISBN: 9781476777436
Publication Date: 2016
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by Library of Congress Staff
Call Number: Z733.U6 C36 2017
ISBN: 9781452158587
Publication Date: 2017
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton
Call Number: Z116.A2 D37 2009
ISBN: 9781586488260
Publication Date: 2009
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks - A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence
Call Number: Z1003.2 .S64 2017
ISBN: 1250106494
Publication Date: 2017
Libraries and Google by William Miller; Rita M. Pellen
Call Number: Z674.75.I58 L535 2005
ISBN: 9780789031259
Publication Date: 2006
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford (Editor)
Call Number: Z721 .M43 2015
ISBN: 9780691166391
Publication Date: 2015
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand
Call Number: Z731 .W734 2015
ISBN: 9780190248000
Publication Date: 2015
This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
Call Number: Z716.4 .J64 2010
ISBN: 9780061431609
Publication Date: 2010
Torn from Their Bindings: A Story of Art, Science, and the Pillaging of American University Libraries by Travis McDade
Call Number: Z702.K56 M38 2018
ISBN: 9780700626366
Publication Date: 2018
The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town-and the World by Jan Louch; Lisa Rogak
Call Number: SF445.5 .L68 2016
ISBN: 9781466892972
Publication Date: 2016

E-Books

BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey
ISBN: 9780465042999
Publication Date: 2015
Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Today's Librarians by Guy Robertson
ISBN: 9780081027295
Publication Date: 2018
How Libraries and Librarians Help by Joan C. Durrance; Karen E. Fisher; Marian Bouch Hinton
ISBN: 9780838908921
Publication Date: 2004
The Library Book by Kate Mosse
ISBN: 9781847658401
Publication Date: 2012
Not Your Ordinary Librarian: Debunking the Popular Perceptions of Librarians by Ashanti White
ISBN: 9781843346708
Publication Date: 2012
Our Enduring Values Revisited : Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World by Michael Gorman
ISBN: 9780838913000
Publication Date: 2015
Reinventing Reference: How Libraries Deliver Value in the Age of Google by Katie Elson Anderson (Editor); Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic (Editor); Elson Anderson (Editor); Bowman Cvetkovic (Editor)
ISBN: 9780838912850
Publication Date: 2014
A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes by Patrick M. Valentine
ISBN: 9780810885707
Publication Date: 2012
So You Want to Be a Librarian by Lauren Pressley
ISBN: 9780980200485
Publication Date: 2009

E-Journals

International Journal of Library and Information Science by Dr. Cristina Restrepo-Arango, Dr. Alex Obuh (Editors)
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Publication Date: 2009 - current

International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS) is a peer reviewed open access journal. The journal is published monthly and covers all areas of the subject.

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