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Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America /
For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other referenc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Print culture history in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Christine Pawley
- Methods and Evidence. Community Places and Reading Spaces : Main Street Public Library in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956 / Wayne A. Wiegand ; Reading Library Records : Constructing and Using the What Middletown Read Database / Frank Felsenstein, John Straw, Katharine Leigh, and James J. Connolly ; "Story Develops Badly, Could Not Finish" : Member Book Reviews at the Boston Athenæum in the 1920s / Ross Harvey ; "A Search for Better Ways into the Future" : The Library of Congress and Its Users in the Interwar Period / Jane Aikin
- Public Libraries, Readers, and Localities. Going to "America" : Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900-1920 / Ellen M. Pozzi ; "A Liberal and Dignified Approach" : The John Toman Branch of the Chicago Public Library and the Making of Americans, 1927-1940 / Joyce M. Latham ; Counter Culture : The World as Viewed from Inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944-1956 / Jean Preer
- Intellectual Freedom. Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I / Julia Skinner ; Locating the Library in the Nonlibrary Censorship of the 1950s : Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record / Joan Bessman Taylor ; "Is Your Public Library Family Friendly?" : Libraries as a Site of Conservative Activism, 1992-2002 / Loretta M. Gaffney ; The Challengers of West Bend : The Library as a Community Institution / Emily Knox
- Librarians and the Alternative Press. Meta-Radicalism : The Alternative Press by and for Activist Librarians / Alycia Sellie ; From the Underground to the Stacks and Beyond : Girl Zines, Zine Librarians, and the Importance of Itineraries through Print Culture / Janice A. Radway.