“I Cannot Get Along without the Books I Find Here”: The American Library in Paris during the War, Occupation, and Liberation, 1939–1945

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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

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.