Athenaeum origins / Richard Wendorf
America's most influential library? / Kenneth E. Carpenter
The role of women at the Boston Athenaeum / Barbara Adams Hebard
Nineteenth-century British tourists in search of culture in Boston / David B. Dearinger
Whose library? / Katherine Wolff
Prints and photographs at the Boston Athenaeum / Sally Pierce
Building an architectural collection / Catherina Slautterback
The Boston Athenaeum and the creation of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts / Hina Hirayama
Scruples and restricted access at the Boston Athenaeum / Mary Warnement
Conservation at the Boston Athenaeum / James Reid-Cunningham
Building the Boston Athenaeum's book arts collection / Stanley Ellis Cushing
The Calderwood writing initiative at the Boston Athenaeum / John Brereton.
The Boston Athenaeum : bicentennial essays. ISBN 9780934552769. Published by Boston Athenaeum in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.