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• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (2010), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester (2007), ed. by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons (PDF at ALA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Five Laws of Library Science (Chennai: Madras Library Association; London: E. Goldston, 1931), by S. R. Ranganathan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discover Tech Hands-On Engineering Activities: Playful Building (ca. 2015), by Keliann LaConte, Andrew Shaner, Stephanie Shipp, and Yolanda Ballard (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• The Secret Book (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Librarian at Play (Boston: Small, Maynard and company, c1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Old Librarian's Almanack (by Pearson, title page notwithstanding; Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, 1909), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at roytennant.com)

• The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2014), by Lorcan Dempsey, ed. by Kenneth J. Varnum (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)

• Handbook of the State Library Commission for the State of Delaware, Established 1901 (new edition, revised and enlarged, 1904), by Delaware State Library Commission, ed. by Florence Bayard Kane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Handbook of the State Library Commission for the State of Delaware, Established 1901, Headquarters at the State House, Dover (Dover: Sentinel Printing Co., 1902), by Delaware State Library Commission, contrib. by Florence Bayard Kane
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet (2008), ed. by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Wendy Pradt Lougee (HTML at Michigan)

• The Library and The Librarian: A Selection of Articles From The Boston Evening Transcript and Other Sources (Woodstock, VT: The Elm Tree Press, 1910), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Sanskrit Librarian Comes to America (1999), by Murari Lal Nagar, ed. by Margaret Ruth Lee (PDF at Missouri)

• Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever-changing Library (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018), ed. by Peter D. Fernandez and Kelly Tilton (PDF at ala.org)
• The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2014), by Lorcan Dempsey, ed. by Kenneth J. Varnum (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• The Secret Mark (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1923), by Roy J. Snell, illust. by Garrett Price (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Library Student Journal (2006-) (full serial archives)
• Urban Library Journal (issues online 2007-) (partial serial archives)
• The Idaho Librarian (partial serial archives)
• In the Library With the Lead Pipe (2008-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of New Librarianship (2016-) (full serial archives)
• Biblioteksbladet (in Swedish) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)

• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (2010), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century, by Public Agenda Foundation (PDF with commentary at publicagenda.org)

• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)

• Public Libraries in the South (reprinted from Library Journal, 1917), by May V. Crenshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• County Library Service in the South: A Study of the Rosenwald County Library Demonstration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935), by Louis Round Wilson and Edward A. Wight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• Open a GLAM Lab (Doha: Book Sprint, 2019), by Mahendra Mahey, Aisha Al-Abdulla, Sarah Ames, Paula Bray, Gustavo Candela, Sally Chambers, Caleb Derven, Milena Dobreva, Katrine Gasser, Stefan Karner, Kristy Kokegei, Ditte Laursen, Abigail Potter, Armin Straube, Sophie-Carolin Wagner, and Lotte Wilms, contrib. by Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi, Judy Broady, Patrice Landry, and Georgios Papaioannou (PDF and Epub with commentary at glamlabs.io)
• Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever-changing Library (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018), ed. by Peter D. Fernandez and Kelly Tilton (PDF at ala.org)
• Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age (c2013), by G. Wayne Clough (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-1987 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989), by Daniel J. Boorstin, ed. by John Young Cole (HTML at loc.gov)
• The Public Library in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954), by Ernestine Rose, contrib. by Lyman Bryson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Starving Libraries: Studies in Ten American Communities During the Depression Years (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933), by R. L. Duffus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices of Public Libraries in the United States of America (Washington: Printed for the House of Representatives, 1851), by Charles C. Jewett (page images at MOA)
• Public Libraries of the United States: Their History, Condition, and Management (two parts: Part I is a report edited by Warren and Clark; Part II is Cutter's rules for a Dictionary Catalogue; 1876), by United States Bureau of Education, ed. by Samuel R. Warren and S. N. Clark, contrib. by Charles A. Cutter
  • Part I: page images at Wisconsin
  • Part II: page images at MOA

• Only Connect: Discovery Pathways, Library Explorations and the Information Adventure (Lepton: Innovative Libraries, 2013), ed. by Andrew Walsh and Emma Coonan (PDF and Epub with commentary in the UK)

• Unequal Access: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in Northern Virginia (Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Public Library, 2021), by Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre (PDF at fairfaxcounty.gov)

• The Quest for a Deeper Meaning of Research Support (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, c2015), ed. by Reggie Raju, Amina Adam, Glynnis Johnson, Caitlin Miller, and Jeremiah Pietersen (PDF with commentary at ifla.org)
• Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019), by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison, contrib. by Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Josephine Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen Shorish (PDF at ala.org)
• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)

• Fantasy Classification System (first edition; Winnipeg, c1952), by A. G. W. Cameron (page images at fanac.org)
• Library of Congress Classification Outline (current edition), by Library of Congress (multiple formats at loc.gov)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.