TY - JOUR AU - Attar, Karen AB - 05 Reviews.qxp_Layout 1 11/08/2017 11:59 Page 357 The Library, .!., September  357 students and sm all size of the book stock com p ared to other universities with sim ilar student num bers. Most of the twentieth-century story is told by J ohn Hum e, a historian of tech- nology and architecture, which p erhap s exp lains why we have detailed descrip tions of the construction of the p resent new building and of library autom ation in his account. A recently retired librarian describes the very recent history of the library before two chap ters highlighting the library’s treasures. The first of these p resents ten exam p les of the best illustrated individual item s in the collection ranging from Hunter’s Psalter to the scrap books of the p oet Edwin Morgan. The second focuses on m ajor collections, such as those of the Scottish Theatre Archive, though the collection of m aterial relating to the m usic hall com edian Harry Lauder seem s to be have been considered too em barrassing to m ention. Early p hotograp hs, em blem books, m ap s, children’s literature and Soviet studies, am ong others, are TI - Story Time: Essays on American Children's Literature from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection. Ed. by Timothy Young. JO - The Library DO - 10.1093/library/18.3.357 DA - 2017-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/story-time-essays-on-american-children-s-literature-from-the-betsy-IGSrP0TML0 SP - 357 EP - 359 VL - 18 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -