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DIED. DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, 89, historian and public servant; in Washington. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for The Americans: The Democratic Experience, a cultural history of post--Civil War America, and spent 13 years as Librarian of Congress. Famous for the enlightened skepticism with which he regarded popular culture, he warned, "Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models...
...cost of obtaining permission for scanned articles is prohibitive. We haven’t been able to support more than 13 courses per semester,” Heather Cole, a librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries, told...
According to Associate Librarian of the College for Research and Instruction Lynda Leahy, Littauer could be the new home of Government Documents—a massive collection of international state records, United Nations hearings and other primary materials—now occupying the bottom level of Lamont. HCL has been considering moving Government Documents since last summer...
From 1969 to 1973, Boorstin served as the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of History and Technology. He became librarian of Congress...
...librarian, Boorstin tried to make the world’s largest library more attractive to the public. Under his direction, the library installed picnic tables and benches and established a center to encourage reading. He held the post until 1987, when he resigned to focus on his passion: writing about history...