id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15120 Goedert, Winfried Olson, Michael P. The Odyssey of a German National Library: A Short History of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Deutsche Buecherei, and the Deutsche Bibliothek. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Beitraege zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Bd. 36), 1996. vii, 122p. DM78. ISBN 3-447-03648-6. 1997-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2461 184 50 They also are prone to wild asser- tions that they fail to substantiate, such as “thinking of library users as custom- ers is a new concept for many librar- ians.” Throughout the book, Olson takes the view of a social historian; he always sets the special events of library history in the larger social and political context. cache/crl-15120.pdf txt/crl-15120.txt