Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America / / edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 027.473 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century |
| Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PawleyChristine <1945-> |
| RobbinsLouise S. | |
| 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"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America |
| ISBN: | 0-299-29323-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818986403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Print culture history in modern America.