Non fiction books about libraries

[michele missner <missnerm@athenet.net>]

Thank you ( and my daughter the future librarian thanks you) for all of
the suggestions for non fiction books about libraries.  I was asked to
post the list.  Some people might like to read some of these over the
winter break.

The Story of Libraries from the Invention of
Writing to the Computer Age by Fred Lerner (1998).

_The Book on the Bookshelf_, by Henry Petroski. It's a history of how
books have been bound and stored. Sounds kind of boring, but is actually
quite interesting. It made me wonder if all our computers now tethered
to desks with network cables will cometo be seen by future historians as
the 20th century version of the books chained to desks of the Middle
Ages.

 _A Gentle Madness_, a book about book collecting; libraries are
major collectors.

"Information Problem-Solving" by Michael Eisenberg &
Robert Berkowitz

Archibald MacLeish's "Champion of the Cause."  It is a
compliation of his speeches.  He was chosen to be the Director of the
Library of Congress in 1939.

"The Indispensable Librarian" by Doug Johnson.

Reading Rooms,  edited by Susan Allen Toth.
It's a collection of essays by famous authors about libraries.

The invisible librarian by Gary Hartzell
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Just did a quick search on amazon.com  I'm guessing she can't use a
library
textbook.  Don't know a thing about any of these, but the first one
sounded
especially interesting, if expensive!

The Amazing Internet Challenge : How Leading Projects Use Library Skills
to
Organize the Web
by Amy Tracy Wells, Susan Calcari, Travis Koplow   Published 1999
$45.00

Andrew Carnegie : Builder of Libraries (Community Builders)
Charnan Simon / Paperback / Published 1998
$5.56

Banned in the U.S.A.
by Herbert N. Foerstel
$49.95

Future Libraries : Dreams, Madness, & Reality;
Walt Crawford, Michael Gorman

Being Analog : Creating Tomorrow's Libraries
by Walt Crawford
$28.00
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How reading changed my life by Anna Quindlan



Although I had requested non fiction a few people also suggested some
fiction books

FICTION
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
The name of the rose by Umberto Ecco

There were a few more fiction titles which I must have iadvertantly
deleted.

--
Michele Missner
Program Leader, Library Media Services
Appleton Area School District
Office: Einstein Middle School
Phone: 920 832-4899
email:  missnerm@athenet.net
        missnermichele@aasd.k12.wi.us

Library Media Specialist
Appleton West High School
610 N. Badger Ave.
Appleton, Wi. 54914
Phone: 920 832-4162
Fax:     920 832-6239/4819
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