One hundred and fifty years ago, months before Lincoln was sworn in, an article in the New York Daily Times accused Southern congressmen of stealing books from the Library of Congress to start a library for the Confederacy. The House of Representatives launched an immediate investigation and discovered that the scene of the alleged crime was actually a much smaller library and the true culprit was bad management abetted by rumour mongering.
BT - Library and Information History IS - 1 LA - English N2 -One hundred and fifty years ago, months before Lincoln was sworn in, an article in the New York Daily Times accused Southern congressmen of stealing books from the Library of Congress to start a library for the Confederacy. The House of Representatives launched an immediate investigation and discovered that the scene of the alleged crime was actually a much smaller library and the true culprit was bad management abetted by rumour mongering.
PY - 2011 SP - 3 EP - 16 T2 - Library and Information History TI - Reckless and Unwarranted Inferences: The US House Library Scandal of 1861 VL - 27 ER -