Contents

• Foreword / John Y. Cole
• Pamela Spence Richards (1941- 1999) : A biographical sketch / Betty Turock ; A tribute from the United States / Donald G. Davis, Jr. ; A tribute from Russia / Valeria D. Stelmakh
• Books, reading, and publishing in the Cold War : Preface / Martine Poulain ; Editorial note / Donald G. Davis, Jr.
• Session 1: Books during the Cold War. "With malice toward none" : IFLA and the Cold War / Donald G. Davis, Jr. (U.S.A.), assisted by Nathaniel Feis
• A Soviet research library remembered / Edward Kasinec (U.S.A.)
• The Overseas Libraries controversy and the freedom to read : U.S. librarians and publishers confront Joseph McCarthy / Louise S. Robbins (U.S.A.)
• The effect of the Cold War on librarianship in China / Cheng Huanwen (China)
• Political censorship in Finnish libraries from 1944 to 1946 / Kai Ekholm (Finland)
• Books and libraries as instruments of cultural diplomacy in Francophone Africa during the Cold War / Mary Niles Maack (U.S.A.)
• Session 2: Publishing during the Cold War. Censors and their readers : selling, silencing, and reading Czech books / Jirina ˆSmejkalová (Czech Republic)
• Control of literary communication in the 1945 -1956 period in Poland / Oskar Stanislaw Czarnik (Poland)
• International harmony : threat or menace? : U.S. youth services librarians and Cold War censorship, 1946-1955 / Christine Jenkins (U.SA.)
• Le Comité de Défense de la Littérature et de la Presse pour la Jeunesse : the Communists and the Press for Children during the Cold War / Thierry Crépin (France)
• Session 3: Reading during the Cold War. Reading in the context of censorship in the Soviet Union / Valeria D. Stelmakh (Russia)
• Symbolic censorship and control of appropriations : the French Communist Party facing "heretical" texts during the Cold War / Bernard Pudal (France)
• American literature in Cold War Germany / Martin Meyer (Germany)
• A Cold War best-seller : the reaction to Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at noon in France from 1945 to 1950 / Martine Poulain (France)
• Library secret fonds and the competition of societies / István Király (Romania)
• Session 4: Libraries during the Cold War. Cold War librarianship : Soviet and American library activities in support of national foreign policy, 1946-1991 / Pamela Spence Richards (U.SA.)
• Foreign libraries in the mirror of Soviet library science during the Cold War / Boris Volodin (Russia)
• Finland pays its debts and gets books in return : ASLA grants to the Finnish academic libraries, 1950-1967 / Ilkka Mäkinen (Finland)
• Romanian libraries recover after the Cold War : the Communist legacy and the road ahead / Hermina G.B. Anghelescu (U.SA.)
• Leaning to one side : the impact of the Cold War on Chinese library collections / Priscilla C. Yu (U.SA.)
• The bookplate / Martin Manning