Broken pieces : a library life, 1941-1978

From his earliest reading memories in wartime Britain through five decades of librarianship, eminent librarian and former ALA President Michael Gorman offers insights from his extraordinary career in this new memoir.

• Acknowledgments p. xi
• Preface p. xiii
• Chapter 1 Et in Arcadia Ego, 1941-1945 p. 1
• Chapter 2 London, 1945-1947 p. 11
• Chapter 3 On the Move, 1948-1952 p. 19
• Chapter 4 Finchley Catholic Grammar School, 1952-1957 p. 35
• Chapter 5 Hampstead Public Library, 1957-1960 p. 51
• Chapter 6 Paris and Afterwards, 1960-1962 p. 75
• Chapter 7 Marriage and Library School, 1962-1966 p. 99
• Chapter 8 BNB, Children, Cataloguing, and a Crisis, 1966-1969 p. 115
• Chapter 9 BNB, the British Library, 1970-1974 p. 139
• Chapter 10 Illinois, 1974-1975 p. 157
• Chapter 11 Back to England, the University of Illinois, 1975-1978 p. 175
• Chapter 12 The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules p. 191
• epilogue p. 205
• notes p. 209
• index p. 223