Center for the Book Publications List

The Center for the Book Viewpoint Series—A Chronological Listing

Viewpoints are booklets presenting Center for the Book lectures and informal talks by a wide range of scholars, writers, librarians, bibliographers, and library and reading promoters. Many of the Viewpoint lectures and publications were supported by a personal contribution to the Center for the Book from Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard. Each publication also is included by subject in the preceding list.

• Barbara W. Tuchman. The Book. No. 1, 1980.
• Elaine Moss and Barbara Rollock. The Audience for Children’s Books. No. 2, 1980.
• Daniel J. Boorstin. Gresham’s Law: Knowledge or Information? No. 3, 1980.
• I.R. Willison. On the History of Libraries and Scholarship. No. 4, 1980.
• Alfred Kazin, Dan Lacy, and Ernest L. Boyer. The State of the Book World in 1980. No. 5, 1981.
• Daniel J. Boorstin. The World Encompassed. No. 6, 1981.
• John Y. Cole, ed. The International Flow of Information: A Trans-Pacific Perspective. No. 7, 1981.
• Daniel J. Boorstin. A Nation of Readers. No. 8, 1982.
• Dan H. Lawrence. A Portrait of the Author as a Bibliography. No. 9, 1983.
• Harrison E. Salisbury. The Book Enchained. No. 10, 1984.
• William P. Barlow, Jr. Collecting: Personal Rewards and Public Benefits. No. 11, 1984.
• Anthony Rota. Points at Issue: A Bookseller Looks at Bibliography. No. 12, 1984.
• Justin Kaplan. Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn. No. 13, 1985.
• Robert B. Downs. Books in My Life. No. 14, 1985.
• Daniel J. Boorstin. The Indivisible World: Libraries and the Myth of Cultural Exchange. No. 15, 1985.
• John P. Feather and David McKitterick, The History of Books and Libraries: Two Views. No. 16, 1986.
• Lawrence Clark Powell. Next to Mother’s Milk. No. 17, 1987.
• Lester Asheim. The Reader-Viewer-Listener: An Essay in Communication. No. 18, 1987.
• David L. Vander Meulen. Where Angels Fear to Travel: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope. No. 19, 1988.
• Donald W. Krummel. The Memory of Sound: Observations on the History of Music on Paper. No. 20, 1988.
• R. Kathleen Molz. The Knowledge Institutions in the Information Age: The Special Case of the Public Library. No. 21, 1988.
• James H. Billington. Books and the World. No. 22, 1988.
• George H. Nash. Books and the Founding Fathers. No. 23. 1989.
• Robert Vosper. International Library Horizons: Some Personal Observations. Nov. 24, 1989.
• Nahum M. Sarna. Ancient Libraries and the Ordering of the Biblical Books. No. 25, 1989.
• Bernhard Fabian. The Future of Humanistic Scholarship, with comments by Michael T. Ryan and Thomas F. Staley. No. 26, 1990.
• John Y. Cole, ed. Research Collections in the Information Age. Views by Stephen E. Ostrow and Robert Zich. No. 27, 1990.
• E.L. Konigsburg. The Mask Beneath the Face: Reading about and with; Writing about and for: Children. No. 28, 1990.
• John Malcolm Brinnan. Travel and the Sense of Wonder, with Jean Trebbi. No. 29. 1992.
• G. Thomas Tanselle. A Description of Descriptive Bibliography. No. 30, 1992.
• Kenneth E. Carpenter. Readers & Libraries: Toward a History of Libraries and Culture in America. No. 31, 1996.
• John Y. Cole, ed. “Authorship in the Information Age: Reflections of Graziella Tonfoni” (unpublished), No. 32, 2013.