id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16308 Greene, Harlan Patrick M. Valentine. A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes, 2012. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2012. 203p. alk. paper, $60 (ISBN 9780810885707). LC2012-020892. 2013-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1274 66 63 He lets readers see the dangers of coming across as “too corporate” and highlights common sense do’s and don’ts in most chapters. His work offers a wonderfully succinct history of computers, as well as trends in American libraries after WWII; and it is up-to-date enough to mention recent developments such as the impact of catastrophic events of the “Arab Spring” on libraries. cache/crl-16308.pdf txt/crl-16308.txt