Tunnel vision and blind spots: What the past tells us about the present; reflections on the twentieth-century history of American librarianship

Library Quarterly

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-32

  Wiegand, Wayne A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/603022     Document Type: Review

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