The Librarians of Congress /

For over 200 years the Library of Congress has served as our national library. Since its establishment in 1800, thirteen librarians have served as the institution's head librarian. Sadly, little is known about most of them. The Librarians of Congress is the first book to contain the biographies...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nappo, Christian A., 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Temas:
Library of Congress > Biography.
Library of Congress > History.
Library of Congress
National librarians > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
National librarians
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A brief history of the Library of Congress
  • John James Beckley : Jefferson's first librarian
  • Patrick Magruder : the unfortunate librarian
  • George Watterston : the librarian of letters
  • John Silva Meehan : the Jacksonian librarian
  • John Gould Stephenson : the Civil War era librarian
  • Ainsworth Rand Spofford : the transformational librarian
  • John Russell Young : the journalist librarian
  • George Herbert Putnam : the modern librarian
  • Archibald MacLeish : the literary librarian
  • Luther Harris Evans : the diplomatic librarian
  • Lawrence Quincy Mumford : the administrative librarian
  • Daniel Joseph Boorstin : the scholar librarian
  • James Hadley Billington : the Russian studies scholar librarian.

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