Music, Culture, and the Library is a very good book. It targets a neglected topic, is clearly written, rigorously researched, and ambitious in its scope.
The Library Quarterly
Sophisticated placement of familiar questions of library collection policy within the wider context of alternative social attitudes toward art and culture...highly pertinent to local issues...nice book.
Patrick Wilson, Professor ... Read moreEmeritus, School of Information Management and Sytems, University of California, Berkeley If only every type of library received a cultural discussion as thoughtful and instructive as this one, we'd begin to understand more deeply the multiple and complex roles libraries currently fill in contemporary societies. Congratulations to Sanna Talja for penetrating analysis of music libraries that ought to have a ripple effect throughout LIS research and practice.
Wayne A. Wiegand, Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Co-Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America Show Less