id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-14898	Besant, Larry X.	The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899-1939 (Book Review)	1994	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1056	47	48	It is a solid and readable history of several complex issues: LC's role in American library development; the vicissitudes of Congressional support; the library com- munity's reactions to Putnam's manage- ment of LC services to libraries; and the role of LC in the development of librari- anship as a profession. For then and there-during the forging of stand- ard nonstandard processing practices in American libraries; during the growth of a plantation mentality by and toward library workers; during the debate on the proper training for librarians; during the calcification of the LC-ALA-ARL minuet-is the story of how our profes- sion got to be the way we were, and are.	cache/crl-14898.pdf	txt/crl-14898.txt