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Theodore Jones is not a librarian but a writer specialising in architecture, preservation and housing issues for the New York Times and the Times‐Mirror Magazine Group. Librarians have a habit of shunning books about libraries written by non‐librarians, but here we have a volume not to be ignored.

What Ted (his own appellation!) Jones has done here is to list the Carnegie library buildings in the USA, all 1,689 of them, state by state, and to survey many of them. There is a brief but telling foreword by Karal Ann Stirling, of the University of Minnesota, in which she reminds...

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