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200 10$aMain Street public library$b[electronic resource] $ecommunity places and reading spaces in the rural heartland, 1876-1956 /$fWayne A. Wiegand
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (261 p.)
225 1 $aIowa and the Midwest experience
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-60938-067-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction : information, reading, place -- Pride of a century : the Bryant Library of Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- A credit to the place : the Sage Library of Osage, Iowa -- Tourist attraction : the Charles H. Moore Library of Lexington, Michigan -- Those commission ideas : the Rhinelander Public Library of Rhinelander, Wisconsin -- Literature suitable for a small public library : Main Street public library collections -- Epilogue : agent of social harmony.
330   $aThe United States has more public libraries than it has McDonald's restaurants. By any measure, the American public library is a heavily used and ubiquitous institution. Popular thinking identifies the public library as a neutral agency that protects democratic ideals by guarding against censorship as it makes information available to people from all walks of life. Among librarians this idea is known as the "library faith." But is the American public library as democratic as it appears to be?  In Main Street Public Library, eminent lib
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606   $aLibraries and community$zMiddle West$xHistory
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615  0$aLibraries and community$xHistory.
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