The public library : a photographic essay / / Robert Dawson ; foreword by Bill Moyers ; afterword by Ann Patchett
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| Autore: |
Dawson Robert <1950->
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| Titolo: |
The public library : a photographic essay / / Robert Dawson ; foreword by Bill Moyers ; afterword by Ann Patchett
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Princeton Architectural Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) : illustrations (some color), photographs |
| Disciplina: | 027.70973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public libraries - United States |
| Libraries and society - United States | |
| Libraries and community - United States | |
| Library users - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MoyersBill D. |
| PatchettAnn | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Foreword - Bill Moyers""; ""Introduction - Robert Dawson""; ""CHAPTER ONE: The American Public Library""; ""The Library Spirit by Stuart A.P. Murray""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Economics""; ""A Country Without Libraries - Charles Simic""; ""All Hail The Public Library - David Morris""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Civic Memory and Identity""; ""What the Library Means to Me - Amy Tan""; ""Letters to the Children of Troy, Michigan""; ""How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life - Barbara Kingsolver""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: Urban and Rural Libraries""; ""The Northeast Nevada Regional Bookmobile - Kelvin K. Selders"" |
| ""Practicing Seva - Dorothy Lazard""""Spreading Enlightenment - Luis Herrera""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: Art and Architecture""; ""CHAPTER SIX: Evolving Libraries""; ""Enriched by What We Share: A Green Perspective on the Public Library as a Cultural Commons - Chip Ward""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: Literature and Learning""; ""Library Days - Philip Levine""; ""Steinbeck Country - Anne Lamott""; ""Maps and Stats: Driving Through the Commons - Walker Dawson""; ""Afterword - Ann Patchett""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Notes""; ""Credits"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more. Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in America also function as de facto community centers offering free access to the internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter. And yet, across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or curtailing their hours of operation. Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds of these endangered institutions. The Public Library presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs' from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America's most celebrated writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey of a treasured American institution. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The public library |
| ISBN: | 1-61689-354-0 |
| 1-61689-327-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459900303321 |
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