| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Ed. by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xii, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-590-6. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-591-3.)

The twelve papers in this collected work were inspired by a conference in Philadelphia in April 2002—funded by several noteworthy bibliographically oriented organizations, featuring more than twenty papers, and attended by over 150 registrants. Since some of the presenters published their papers separately, only about half of the contributions in the current volume come from scholars who presented papers at the conference. The other contributors were invited to extend the work's scope and enrich it with additional contemporary perspectives. The collection was conceived and ably edited by an English professor at New York University and a distinguished library historian, recently retired from Harvard University.

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