(The)New York Public Library : a universe of knowledge

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface / Paul LeClerc = 8
• Prelude
• 1. "A Free Library for the Use of the People" : Predecessors and Founders = 10
• A Dream Fulfilled, 1913-1945
• 2. "Intellectual Hospitality" : The Research Collections = 30
• 3 "The Sovereign Hope of Learning" : Neighborhood Library Service = 60
• Building Libraries in a New World, 1945-2000
• 4. "An Empowering Mechanism" : Modernization and Growth = 84
• 5. "A Metaphor for an Ideal City" : Creating a 21st-century Library = 112
• Further Reading = 139
• Illustration Credits／Permissions = 139
• Index = 142