General Introduction
– On professors and assistants
– Prairie dogs
– What’s on the blog?
– More on Chris Gehrz, pietism, and education
– The Christian Humanist Forum—coming soon!
Our Experience with Libraries
– Sexy librarians
– Arcane and hierarchical
– A children’s endeavor?
– Emmanuel’s claim to fame
Material Conditions
– Disposable wealth
– Political stability
– Libraries in the ancient world
– Getting away from wars
Benjamin Franklin
– What Franklin didn’t do
– The Junto
– Public and private libraries
– Franklin the inventor and booklender
Famous Libraries
– The Library at Qumran
– The New York Public Library
– The Library of Congress
– The Beast’s library
– Wearmouth-Jarrow Library
Behind the Counter
– Library Science
– Nathan Gilmour, library carpenter
– Gathering a breadth of interests
– Contact with the public
– The best story
Computers and the Library
– The changing face of libraries
– How Amazon.com killed the library
– The role of public programs
– Are libraries for children?
– Library book sales
Virtual Libraries
– The online database and the education bubble
– The death of the academic journal
– The internet and the small college
– A hymn to JSTOR
– The CCEL
– Microfiche
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