Libraries in times of war, revolution, and social change / W. Boyd Rayward and Christine Jenkins, issue editors.

Collection of papers originally delivered at the eleventh five-yearly Library History Seminar sponsored by the American Library Association's Library History Round Table and held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 27-30, 2005.

Issued as: Library trends, v. 55, no. 3 (winter 2007).

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : libraries in times of war, revolution, and social change / W. Boyd Rayward & Christine Jenkins -- Cultural policy in a time of war : the American response to endangered books in World War II / Kathy Peiss -- Badly wanted, but not for reading : the unending odyssey of The complete library of four treasures of the Wensu Library / Chengzhi Wang -- The discourse of loss in Song Dynasty private and imperial book collecting / Hilde De Weerdt -- The Tianyige Library : a symbol of the continuity of Chinese culture / Ping Situ -- Loss of a recorded heritage : destruction of Chinese books in the Peking siege of 1900 / Cheng Huanwen and Donald G. Davis, Jr. -- The Paris Commune of 1871 and the Bibliothèque nationale / Gerald S. Greenberg -- From refuge to risk : public libraries and children in World War I / Melanie A. Kimball -- L'heure joyeuse : educational and social reform in post-World War I Brussels / Debra Mitts-Smith -- "Arsenals of scientific and technical information" : public technical libraries in Britain during and immediately after World War I / Alistair Black -- "I cannot get along without the books I find here" : the American Library in Paris during the war, occupation, and liberation, 1939-1945 / Mary Niles Maack -- "People were literally starving for any kind of reading" : the Theresienstadt ghetto central library, 1942-1945 / Miriam Intrator -- Books cannot be killed by fire : the German Freedom Library and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books as agents of cultural memory / Nikola von Merveldt -- Libraries and reading in Finnish military hospitals during the Second World War / Ikka Mäkinen -- From reading guidance to thought control : wartime Japanese libraries / Sharon Domier -- Doing their part : the services of the San Diego Public Library during World War II / Tamara Shaw -- Publishing in wartime : the Modern Library series during the Second World War / Gordon B. Neavill -- "Children who read good books usually behave better, and have good manners" : the founding of the Notre Dame de Grace Library for Boys and Girls, Montreal, 1943 / Chris Lyons -- The International Relations Office, 1956-1972 / Margaret Stieg Dalton -- Man's right to knowledge : libraries and Columbia University's 1954 Cold War bicentennial / Jean L. Preer -- Publishing American values : the Franklin Book Programs as Cold War cultural diplomacy / Louise S. Robbins -- The music collection of the former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland : past, present, and future developments / Marek Sroka -- Unannounced and unexpected : the desegregation of Houston Public Library in the early 1950s / Cheryl Knott Malone -- ACONDA and ANACONDA : social change, social responsibility, and librarianship / Douglas Raber -- "The books were just the props" : public libraries and contested space at Cape Flats Townships in the 1980s / Archie L. Dick -- New realities : libraries in post-Soviet Russia / Ellen Knutson -- "Stuff happens" : a brief overview of the 2003 destruction of Iraqi manuscript collections, archives, and libraries / Nabil Al-Tikriti -- The moral imperative to preserve / Michèle V. Cloonan.