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Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America / / edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins |
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Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Collana |
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Print Culture History in Modern America |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century |
Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction - Christine Pawley""; ""Part 1: 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 1920's - Ross Harvey"" |
"""A Search for Better Ways into the Future": The Library of Congress and Its Users in the Interwar Period - Jane Aikin""""Part 2: 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""; ""Part 3: Intellectual Freedom"" |
""Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I - Julia Skinner""""Locating the Library in the Nonlibrary Censorship of the 1950's: Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record - Joan |
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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""; ""Part 4: 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""""Contributors""; ""Index"" |
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