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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.

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• 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)

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Booklist Review

Gorman president of ALA from 2005 to 2006 presents here a sensitive look at his early life, beginning with growing up in London after WWII and culminating in his taking the position of director of technical services at the University of Illinois and his work on the AACR2. In fact, he devotes the last chapter to a time line of AACR2, which library students and bibliophiles will be most interested in. Gorman uses a fine literary hand with this memoir, which is recommended for general readers and librarians particularly catalogers, who will find much to enjoy in the sections on his storied career.--Vnuk, Rebecca Copyright 2010 Booklist