The Academic Library in the United States

Mark L. McCallon is a professor and associate dean for library information services at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. His interests include electronic resources management, the history and biography of reading and librarianship. John Mark Tucker, professor emeritus from Purdue University, served as Humanities, Social Science, and Education Librarian at Purdue and, later, as dean of library and information resources at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

John M. Budd

From the Bequest of John Harvard to the Dream of Alexandria: Historiography of the Academic Library in the United States, 1638–2015

Mark L. McCallon and John Mark Tucker

Introductory Essays

The Development of the Academic Library in American Higher Education and the Role of the Academic Librarian

Beverly P. Lynch

Perceptions of the Academic Library: Midwestern College Libraries as They Have Been Depicted in College Histories

John Caldwell

Book Collections and Classical Training, 1638–1799

Books Across the Atlantic

Eric Glasgow

Libraries in America to 1850: College Libraries

Elmer D. Johnson and Michael H. Harris

Liberal Arts Colleges and Professional Education, 1800–1875

The American College Library, 1800–1860

Howard Clayton

Formation of the University, 1876–1919

The Transformation of American Scholarship, 1875–1917

Arthur E. Bestor, Jr.

Research Libraries, the Ideology of Reading, and Scholarly Communication, 1876–1900

Wayne A. Wiegand

Experimentation and Redefinition, 1920–1945

Private Dominance in Black Academic Libraries, 1916–1938

James E. Hooper

Toward a New Cultural Design: The American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and Libraries in the 1930s

Kenneth Carpenter

Expansion, Science, and Technology, 1946–1988, Part I

The Influence of Computer Technology on Academic Library Buildings: A Slice of Recent History

Philip D. Leighton and David C. Weber

Diversity and Retrenchment, 1946–1988, Part II

In the Eye of the Storm: Academic Libraries in the Sixties

Fay M. Blake

ACRL’s Fiftieth Anniversary: For Reflection, for Celebration, and for Anticipation

Edward G. Holley

Digital Expansion, 1989–2015

Context and Background [on the Transformation of Scholarly Communication]

Rikk Mulligan

Historiographical Futures

Historiographical Futures for Library History: Conceptual Observations for Future Historians

­­­Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel

Further Reading

The Academic Library in the United States: Selected Historical Readings

Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel, Mark L. McCallon, and John Mark Tucker

About the Contributors

Index