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Widener

Biography of a Library

Matthew Battles

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ISBN 9780674016682

Publication Date: 11/15/2004

224 pages

27 color illustrations, 37 halftone illustrations

Widener Library

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Foreword by Nancy M. Cline
Preface
I. Decease Calls Me Forth
II. Colossus
III. Monumentally Inviting
Postscript
Notes on Sources
Image Credits
Index

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