Social libraries and library societies in eighteenth-century North America / James Raven
Subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York / James Green
A great and natural enemy of democracy? : politics and culture in the antebellum Portsmouth Athenæum / Michael A. Baenen
"An association of kindred spirits" : Black readers and their reading rooms / Elizabeth McHenry
Boston library catalogues, 1850-1875 : female labor and technological change / Barbara A. Mitchell
Faith in reading : public libraries, liberalism, and the civil religion / Thomas Augst
Domesticating Spain : 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America / Elizabeth Amann
Women writers and their libraries in the 1920s / Karin Roffman
The library as place, collection, or service : promoting book circulation in Durham, North Carolina, and at the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1925-1945 / Janice Radway
Blood and thunder on the bookmobile : American public libraries and the construction of "the reader," 1950-1995 / Christine Pawley
Toward a new cultural design : the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter
Scarcity or abundance? : preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig.
Institutions of reading : the social life of libraries in the United States. ISBN 9781558495913. Published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.