WIDENER LIBRARY
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Widener

Biography of a Library

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HARDCOVER

$50.00 • £43.95 • €45.95

ISBN 9780674016682

Publication Date: 11/15/2004

Short

224 pages

27 color illustrations, 37 halftone illustrations

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Widener: Biography of a Library will be useful to anyone interested in the history of Harvard, the development of large academic libraries in the twentieth century, or the Widener in particular.—Willliam Martin, Libraries & Culture

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