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crl-13108	Bentz, Dale M.	Ideas and the University Library: Essays of an Unorthodox Academic Librarian (Book Review)	1978-01-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1440	74	58	Joseph C. Rowell, librar- ian of the University of California in 1905, in lamenting the inadequate support of academic libraries in comparison to the riches of public libraries, is quoted from Li- brary Journal: Enviously I have been the public librarian, with a city's treasury at his back, wasting his substance in trumpery novels by the thousand. This subject is sufficiently broad to permit Boorstin to begin by de- scribing the limbo in which public libraries now find themselves as contrasted to their vigor a century ago, when they were guided by three founding principles -self-help, autonomy of the individual, and community.	cache/crl-13108.pdf	txt/crl-13108.txt