Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award

About the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award
The Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award is presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field of library history, including the history of libraries, librarianship, and book culture. It will next be awarded in January of 2010.

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2010 Winner(s)

David Allen

University of St. Andrews

for the book A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England, (London: British Library, 2008).