Small-town libraries. excerpt from One writer's beginnings (memoir) / Eudora Welty --
excerpt from Summer (novel) / Edith Wharton --
excerpt from Main Street (novel) / Sinclair Lewis --
excerpt from Grand opening (novel) / Jon Hassler --
Library scene, small town, 1941 (poem) / John R. Nixon, Jr. --
Hillsboro's good luck (story) / Dorothy Canfield Fisher --
Bookworm, from Blooming (memoir) / Susan Allen Toth.
City libraries. excerpt from New York Jew (memoir) / Alfred Kazin --
A library lion speaks (poem) / E.B. White --
The heart of the heart of the library (essay) / William Cole --
excerpt from Plexus (memoir) / Henry Miller --
Back issues (essay) / Elizabeth Hardwick --
Reading room (poem) / E.B. White --
Response of the gentle scholars (poem) / Edmund Wilson --
excerpt from Bronx primitive (memoir) / Kate Simon --
excerpt from A son of the middle border (memoir) / Hamlin Garland --
Poetry reading in the downtown library (poem) / Cathy Stern.
The librarian. excerpt from Betsy and Tacy go down town (children's book) / Maud Hart Lovelace --
Growing up with a past (essay) / Howard A. Wilson --
Lucy Wallis, from Centerville, U.S.A. (fiction) / Charles Merz --
Marian the librarian (song) from The music man / Meredith Willson --
The library (story) / Nikki Giovanni --
Gloss on a decision of the Council of Nicaca (story) / Joanne Greenberg.
Children in the library. excerpt from A quiet place (children's book) / Rose Blue --
excerpt from Thimble summer (children's book) / Elizabeth Enright --
Covert Street (poem) / Michael Waters --
excerpt from It (novel) / Stephen King --
D'Artagnan on Ninth Street (essay) / Pete Hamill --
excerpt from A tree grows in Brooklyn (novel) / Betty Smith --
excerpt from An American childhood (memoir) / Annie Dillard --
Somebody always grabs the purple (story) / Henry Roth --
The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division (poem) / Randall Jarrell --
Children selecting books in a library (poem) / Randall Jarrell --
excerpt from Half Magic (children's book) / Edward Eager.
Love in the library. Wants (story) / Grace Paley --
A note on library policy (poem) / Larry Rubin --
Reading room, the New York Public Library (poem) / Richard Eberhart --
The doctors' club (memoir) / John Taylor --
Summer librarian (story) / Sue Kaufman.
Mystery and murder in the library. QL969.C9 (story) / Anthony Boucher --
The library book (story) / Isaac Asimov --
The day of the bookmobile (story) / Patricia McGerr --
excerpt from The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (children's book) / John Bellairs --
The reference room (story) / John D. MacDonald.
Laughter in the library. Library (poem) / Richard Armour --
excerpt from The happy bookers (humor) / Richard Armour --
The Carnegie libraries (humorous essay) / Finley Peter Dunne --
Three short poems / Pyke Johnson, Jr. --
The interest gauge (story) / Edmund Lester Pearson --
Song of the library staff (poem) / Sam Walter Foss --
excerpt from Beezus and Ramona (children's book) / Beverly Cleary --
excerpt from Rufus M. (children's book) / Eleanor Estes.
Reading-room reveries. Library scene (poem) / Robert Pinsky --
Daily library visitor (poem) / Marsden Hartley --
In the periodical room (poem) / Dannye Romine Powell --
Now Adam (poem) / Dannye Romine Powell --
A girl in a library (poem) / Randall Jarrell --
Library (prose poem) / Louis Jenkins --
To a scholar in the stacks (poem) / Howard Nemerov --
The library of Morpheus, from Free the realm of Morpheus (novel) / Steven Millhauser --
excerpt from Angel in the parlor (memoir) / Nancy Willard.
Democracy in the library. The liberry (essay) / Bel Kaufman --
What the library means to me (essay) / Amy Tan --
A summer's reading (story) / Bernard Malamud --
excerpt from A walker in the city (memoir) / Alfred Kazin --
excerpt from Go tell it on the mountain (novel) / James Baldwin --
excerpt from Black boy (memoir) / Richard Wright --
excerpt from Goodbye, Columbus (novel) / Philip Roth --
The trouble of Marcie Flint (story) / John Cheever --
Seth Compton (poem) / Edgar Lee Masters --
Rhoda Pitkin (poem) / Edgar Lee Masters --
The library (poem) / John Greenleaf Whittier --
Libraries (prose poem) / Karl Shapiro --
The premise of meaning (essay) / Archibald MacLeish.