id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15199 Mitchell, W. Bede Kaser, David. The Evolution of the American Academic Library Building. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1997. 208p. $36 alk. paper (ISBN 0-8108-3219-4). LC 96‐36032. 1998-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1867 83 57 One of the foremost authorities on plan­ ning and building academic libraries has provided us with a concise, lucid, and well-researched history of the way that American academic libraries have evolved from the one-room facilities of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the large and complex structures characteristic of the twenti­ eth century. They also contrib­ uted to library buildings and collections abroad such as in Japan and Switzer­ land with the incentive to promote bet­ ter relations between the United States and these countries. cache/crl-15199.pdf txt/crl-15199.txt