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Title: | "I Cannot Get Along without the Books I Find Here": The American Library in Paris during the War, Occupation, and Liberation, 1939—1945 |
Author(s): | Maack, Mary Niles |
Subject(s): | Libraries and society
World War II American Library in Paris |
Abstract: | The American Library in Paris remained open to readers throughout World War II, and its history during the darkest period of the occupation is a tribute to the leadership and courage of an American-born countess, Clara Longworth de Chambrun, and her small but dedicated staff. This article presents the drama as it unfolded—-through the phony war, the fall of Paris, and the bleak years following the American declaration of war on Germany. The concluding section offers a brief analysis of the American Library’s unlikely survival and explores its complicated wartime history by using concepts borrowed from institutional sociology. |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
Citation Info: | In Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: 490–512. |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3710 |
ISSN: | 0024-2594 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2008-02-28 |
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Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change
Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change. Edited by W. Boyd Rayward and Christine Jenkins.