Center for the Book Publications List

Books and Reading in Society

Biography & Books (1986)
Author: John Y. Cole
Description: 76 p. Presentations and discussions from a symposium on Nov. 9 and 10, 1983 at the Library of Congress that brought more than 30 biographers together to discuss the nature of the genre. Featured speakers included publisher Samuel S. Vaughan and biographers Edmund Morris, James Thomas Flexner and David McCullough.
Links: LC catalog entry | Full text through HathiTrust | LCIB coverage (issue 43.15)

The Book (1980)
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Description: 29 p. Viewpoint No. 1. Reprinted 1988. A prominent historian’s view of the values of book culture from the clay tablet to the age of television.
Links: LC catalog entry | Full text through ERIC database |LC catalog entry for audio recording | LCIB coverage (issue 38.37) | LCIB coverage (issue 39.17)

The Book Enchained (1984)
Author: Harrison E. Salisbury
Description: 9 p. Viewpoint No. 10. A former New York Times editor and foreign correspondent draws on his experiences in the Soviet Union in this affirmation of the freedom of expression.
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The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East (1995)
Author: Edited by George Atiyeh
Description: 305 p. Published by the State University of New York Press in cooperation with The Library of Congress. Papers presented at a symposium on November 8-9, 1990 sponsored by the Center for the Book and the Library’s Near East Section, focusing on the intellectual and social influence of the book in the Islamic world.
Links: LC catalog entry | LC catalog entry for audio recording | LCIB coverage (issue 49.22) | LCIB coverage (issue 54.20)

Books and the World (1988)
Author: James H. Billington
Description: 12 p. Viewpoint No. 22. A talk presented by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington in Philadelphia on April 13, 1988 at the opening of the exhibition “Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries.”
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Books, Libraries, Reading, and Publishing in the Cold War (2001)
Author: Edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu and Martine Poulain
Description: 298 p. Contains 20 papers presented by library historians at an international conference in Paris on June 11-12, 1998 discussing the effects of the Cold War on the international book and library community.
Links: LC catalog entry | LCIB coverage (issue 57.10) | LCIB coverage (issue 61.5)

The Circle of Knowledge: An Exhibition in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress (1979)
Author: Curated by John Finzi, bibliography by Ruth S. Freitag
Description: 47 p. A descriptive catalogue for an exhibition at the Library of Congress from December 7, 1979 to March 16, 1980 that displayed 38 encyclopedias from the 15th century to the present. Includes an introduction by James M. Wells of The Newberry Library.
Links: LC catalog entry | Full text through HathiTrust | LCIB coverage (issue 38.51)

The Early Illustrated Book: Essays in Honor of Lessing J. Rosenwald (1982)
Author: Edited by Sandra Hindman
Description: 260 p. Contains 12 scholarly papers from a symposium hosted by the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division and the Center for the Book on May 30-31, 1980, a year after the death of Mr. Rosenwald, the donor of the Library’s greatest rare book collection. The symposium sessions and papers illuminate three topics in which the collection is especially strong: 15th and 16th century Dutch and Flemish Books, Landscape and the Early Illustrated Book and the Illustration of Vergil in Printed Books.
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The Future of Humanistic Scholarship (1990)
Author: Bernhard Fabian
Description: 38 p. Viewpoint No. 26. Includes comments by Michael T. Ryan and Thomas F. Staley.
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Images of the World: The Atlas Through History (1997)
Author: Edited by John Wolter and Ronald E. Grim
Description: 466 p. Published in cooperation with McGraw-Hill. Papers from a symposium held at the Library of Congress on Oct. 25-26, 1984 about the development and historical role of the atlas.
Links: LC catalog entry | LCIB coverage (issue 43.51) | LCIB coverage (issue 55.21)

Multiple Meanings: The Written Word in Japan, Past, Present, and Future (1987)
Author: Edited by J. Thomas Rimer
Description: 111 p. A selection of papers on Japanese language and culture and their translation presented at symposia held at the Library of Congress in 1979 and 1984.
Links: LC catalog entry | LCIB coverage (issue 43.36)

The World Encompassed (1981)
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Description: 11 p. Viewpoint No. 6. Remarks at a dinner held on March 19, 1981 in celebration of “The World Encompassed,” an exhibition honoring the donors who have contributed treasures to the Library of Congress.
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