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For Congress and the Nation: A Chronological History of the Library of Congress.
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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resource Description and Access & Organization development.read more
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Tunnel vision and blind spots: what the past tells us about the present; reflections
TL;DR: A reexamination of the history of American librarianship that is grounded on critical thinking is presented in this article, where the authors argue that contemporary LIS discourse is plagued with tunnel vision and blind spots that greatly limit the profession's ability to understand the role of the American library in the present accurately, and thus seriously affect their efforts to plan the library's future.
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Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots: What the past Tells Us about the Present; Reflections on the Twentieth-Century History of American Librarianship
TL;DR: A reexamination of the history of American librarianship that is grounded on critical thinking is presented in this article, where the authors argue that contemporary LIS discourse is plagued with tunnel vision and blind spots that greatly limit the profession's ability to understand the role of the American library in the present accurately.
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A Jamesian State: The American Scene and "the Working of Democratic Institutions"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors claim that over the course of his career, Henry James developed a coherent and well-considered theory of the state, which he articulates most directly in The American Scene (1907) and links James's remarkably subtle and nuanced registry of emotions and personal interactions to his engagement with pressing political and social questions.
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Histories of the Library of Congress
TL;DR: The first century of the Library's existence (1800-1900) produced noth ing in the way of a full-length history as mentioned in this paper, but rather a collection of documents strung together on a rather thin thread of narrative.
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The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Global Exchange of Government Documents, 1834-1889
TL;DR: In the United States support for international agreements regard ing the official exchange of publications came from those who needed the information published by foreign learned societies and academies during the nineteenth century as mentioned in this paper.
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