id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14898 Besant, Larry X. The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899-1939 (Book Review) 1994-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1056 50 50 For then and there-during the forging of stand- ard nonstandard processing practices in American libraries; during the growth of a plantation mentality by and toward library workers; during the debate on the proper training for librarians; during the calcification of the LC-ALA-ARL minuet-is the story of how our profes- sion got to be the way we were, and are. [LC] became the center of a virtual network of American libraries and librarians. cache/crl-14898.pdf txt/crl-14898.txt