From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: Alexandria is still burning
America's first lending library: The Library Company of Philadelphia
A library of mud: Steve Tinney and the Tablet Room at the University of Pennsylvania
To serve everybody: Nick Higgins, Rikers Island, and the Brooklyn Public Library
The little library that tried: Mary Anne Antonellis and the M. N. Spear Memorial Library, Shutesbury, Massachusetts
History you can hold: Julie Bartlett Nelson and the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library, Northampton Massachusetts
The American Girl: Briony Zlomke Beckstrom and the Franklin Public Library, Franklin, Wisconsin
Bringing the library to you: Bretagne Byrd and the Lewis & Clark Bookmobile, Montana
A Public Space: Tina Ely and the Greybull Public Library, Wyoming
The Cathedral of Learning: Candice Mack and the Los Angeles Central Library
Archiving the past: Texas A&M and the University of Iowa: plus George R. R. Martin gives me some thoughts on libraries
Words from guest authors: Neil Gaiman; Amy Dickinson; Cory Doctorow; Jeff Vandermeer; John Scalzi; Jude Deveraux; Amanda Palmer; Nancy Pearl; Paula Poundstone; Sara Farizan; Peter Sagal; Samira Ahmed; Sangu Mandanna.
