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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463731603321

Titolo

Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America / / edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-299-29323-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Print Culture History in Modern America

Disciplina

027.473

Soggetti

Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century

Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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



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""