Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Precedents
  • European Influences: Before 1800
  • Early Public Libraries in the U.S.: 1800 to 1880s
  • Early Beaux-Arts Libraries: 1850s to 1910s
  • Carnegie Libraries: 1890s to 1920s
  • Decentralized Departmental Libraries: 1890s to 1930s
  • Early Modern Libraries: 1920s to 1940s
  • Postwar Modern Libraries: 1950s to 1970s
  • Postmodern Libraries: 1970s and 1980s
  • Part II: Projects
  • Central Municipal and Regional Libraries
  • Urban Neighborhood Branch Libraries
  • Suburban Neighborhood Branch and Community Libraries
  • Collocated Libraries, Additions, and Modernizations
  • Libraries in Northern Europe.