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- ↑ "100 of the Most Important Leaders we had in the 20th century" (1999 December) American Libraries, 30 (11): 38-46, 48.
- ↑ "100 of the Most Important Leaders we had in the 20th century" (1999 December) American Libraries, 30 (11): 39.