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crl-15199	Mitchell, W. Bede	Kaser, David. The Evolution of the American Academic Library Building. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1997. 208p. $36 alk. paper (ISBN 0-8108-3219-4). LC 96‐36032.	1998	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1867	76	55	One of the foremost authorities on plan­ ning and building academic libraries has provided us with a concise, lucid, and well-researched history of the way that American academic libraries have evolved from the one-room facilities of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the large and complex structures characteristic of the twenti­ eth century. Drawing on a wealth of sources, Kaser begins with some background in­ formation about the earliest means of housing college library collections (a bedroom in the house of the University of North Carolina’s president is one of the more intriguing) and then traces the development of academic library build­ ings from 1840, when the first academic library building was opened at South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina), to the present.	cache/crl-15199.pdf	txt/crl-15199.txt