Book Reviews

摘要

Beck, professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University and government documents librarian, has compiled a comprehensive and gripping biography of Adelaide Hasse. Hasse was a well-known librarian and vocal activist of her day. Unlike many of her male contemporaries, Hasse did not produce memoirs of her life. There are neither library buildings nor awards named for her. Hasse has simply vanished from the pages of history. Only recently have her life and achievements been acknowledged by modem government documents librarians, including Beck; by American Libraries, which recognized Hasse as one of its top 100 twentieth-century library leaders; and by the GPO, where she served as the first librarian in the Office of Superintendent of Documents and where she had an immediate and long-lasting impact.