The Library of Congress is among the largest and most comprehensive research and public libraries in the world. Founded in 1800, it is America's oldest federal cultural institution. Yet it remains relatively unknown outside of the library and research communities.

For more than 40 years John Y. Cole has sought to increase public and scholarly understanding of the key role that the Library of Congress plays in American government, scholarship, and librarianship. As both a professional librarian and a historian of the Library of Congress, he is well-qualified for the task.

The essays in this festschrift originated in a 2007 research forum in John Cole's honor sponsored by the American Library Association's Library Research Round Table. New essays were added for its publication as a special issue of Libraries & the Cultural Record, a quarterly publication of the University of Texas Press.

The new cloth-bound edition Library of Congress and the Center for the Book: Historical Essays Honoring John Y. Cole includes a new essay by Cole, an updated bibliography of his writings 1970-2010, and a comprehensive index.

Author/Creator: Edited by Mary Niles Maack

Publisher: The Library of Congress in association with The University of Texas Press

Description: Hardcover, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", 223 pages

Price: $24.95

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Product #: 21107136