Books and libraries in American society during World War II : weapons in the war of ideas / / Patti Clayton Becker |
Autore | Becker Patti Clayton <1951-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 021.2/0973/0904 |
Collana | Studies in American popular history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Libraries and society - United States - History - 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 - Libraries Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-415-65368-1
0-203-95837-3 1-135-46772-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction ""Imposing Frontages on Important Streets""; Chapter One ""More than Pleasant Luxuries"": Background; Chapter Two ""We Have to Act Immediately"": Responding to the National Emergency; Chapter Three ""Moving Picture Houses and Dance Halls"": Seeking Support; Chapter Four ""To Meet the Needs of a Nation at War"": Libraries Respond; Chapter Five ""Avoid Frightening the Librarian"": Implementing the Policy Statement; Chapter Six ""Praise the Lord and Pass the New Editions"": Victory Book Campaigns
Chapter Seven ""A Spell of Rough Weather"": Wartime ChallengesChapter Eight ""Beginning a New Era"": Postwar Hopes; Epilogue; Appendices; Appendix One American Library Association Presidents, 1939-1946; Appendix Two Total Circulation, 1939-1945; Appendix Three Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Circulation, 1940-1945; Appendix Four Circulation of Adult and Children's Books, 1939-1945; Appendix Five ALA Membership, 1939-1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452558503321 |
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Books and libraries in American society during World War II : weapons in the war of ideas / / Patti Clayton Becker |
Autore | Becker Patti Clayton <1951-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 021.2/0973/0904 |
Collana | Studies in American popular history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Libraries and society - United States - History - 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 - Libraries Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-135-46779-X
0-415-65368-1 0-203-95837-3 1-135-46772-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction ""Imposing Frontages on Important Streets""; Chapter One ""More than Pleasant Luxuries"": Background; Chapter Two ""We Have to Act Immediately"": Responding to the National Emergency; Chapter Three ""Moving Picture Houses and Dance Halls"": Seeking Support; Chapter Four ""To Meet the Needs of a Nation at War"": Libraries Respond; Chapter Five ""Avoid Frightening the Librarian"": Implementing the Policy Statement; Chapter Six ""Praise the Lord and Pass the New Editions"": Victory Book Campaigns
Chapter Seven ""A Spell of Rough Weather"": Wartime ChallengesChapter Eight ""Beginning a New Era"": Postwar Hopes; Epilogue; Appendices; Appendix One American Library Association Presidents, 1939-1946; Appendix Two Total Circulation, 1939-1945; Appendix Three Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Circulation, 1940-1945; Appendix Four Circulation of Adult and Children's Books, 1939-1945; Appendix Five ALA Membership, 1939-1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790550903321 |
Becker Patti Clayton <1951-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 | ||
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Books and libraries in American society during World War II : weapons in the war of ideas / / Patti Clayton Becker |
Autore | Becker Patti Clayton <1951-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 021.2/0973/0904 |
Collana | Studies in American popular history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Libraries and society - United States - History - 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 - Libraries Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-135-46779-X
0-415-65368-1 0-203-95837-3 1-135-46772-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction ""Imposing Frontages on Important Streets""; Chapter One ""More than Pleasant Luxuries"": Background; Chapter Two ""We Have to Act Immediately"": Responding to the National Emergency; Chapter Three ""Moving Picture Houses and Dance Halls"": Seeking Support; Chapter Four ""To Meet the Needs of a Nation at War"": Libraries Respond; Chapter Five ""Avoid Frightening the Librarian"": Implementing the Policy Statement; Chapter Six ""Praise the Lord and Pass the New Editions"": Victory Book Campaigns
Chapter Seven ""A Spell of Rough Weather"": Wartime ChallengesChapter Eight ""Beginning a New Era"": Postwar Hopes; Epilogue; Appendices; Appendix One American Library Association Presidents, 1939-1946; Appendix Two Total Circulation, 1939-1945; Appendix Three Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Circulation, 1940-1945; Appendix Four Circulation of Adult and Children's Books, 1939-1945; Appendix Five ALA Membership, 1939-1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813445703321 |
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The Great Depression [[electronic resource] ] : its impact on forty-six large American public libraries : an inquiry based on a content analysis of published writings of their directors / / by Robert Scott Kramp |
Autore | Kramp Robert Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Duluth, MN, : Library Juice Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina | 021.20973 |
Soggetto topico |
Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century
Libraries and society - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-936117-43-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1 Statement of the Problem Introduction""; ""Chapter 2 Review of Related Research""; ""Chapter 3 Methodology""; ""Chapter 4 Findings Based on Content Analysis""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""Appendices""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457077203321 |
Kramp Robert Scott
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Duluth, MN, : Library Juice Press, 2010 | ||
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The Great Depression [[electronic resource] ] : its impact on forty-six large American public libraries : an inquiry based on a content analysis of published writings of their directors / / by Robert Scott Kramp |
Autore | Kramp Robert Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Duluth, MN, : Library Juice Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina | 021.20973 |
Soggetto topico |
Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century
Libraries and society - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 1-936117-43-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1 Statement of the Problem Introduction""; ""Chapter 2 Review of Related Research""; ""Chapter 3 Methodology""; ""Chapter 4 Findings Based on Content Analysis""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""Appendices""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781009403321 |
Kramp Robert Scott
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The Great Depression [[electronic resource] ] : its impact on forty-six large American public libraries : an inquiry based on a content analysis of published writings of their directors / / by Robert Scott Kramp |
Autore | Kramp Robert Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Duluth, MN, : Library Juice Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina | 021.20973 |
Soggetto topico |
Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century
Libraries and society - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 1-936117-43-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1 Statement of the Problem Introduction""; ""Chapter 2 Review of Related Research""; ""Chapter 3 Methodology""; ""Chapter 4 Findings Based on Content Analysis""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""Appendices""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810686503321 |
Kramp Robert Scott
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Duluth, MN, : Library Juice Press, 2010 | ||
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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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
Disciplina | 027.473 |
Collana | Print Culture History in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century
Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-299-29323-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463731603321 |
Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013 | ||
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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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
Disciplina | 027.473 |
Collana | Print Culture History in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century
Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 0-299-29323-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788311703321 |
Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013 | ||
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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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
Disciplina | 027.473 |
Collana | Print Culture History in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century
Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 0-299-29323-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818986403321 |
Madison, Wisconsin ; ; London, England : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2013 | ||
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Library daylight [[electronic resource] ] : tracings of modern librarianship, 1874-1922 / / edited by Rory Litwin ; with an introduction by Suzanne Stauffer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Duluth, Minn., : Library Juice Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina | 020.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LitwinRory |
Soggetto topico |
Library science - United States - History - 19th century
Library science - United States - History - 20th century Public libraries - United States - History - 19th century Public libraries - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-936117-21-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456908003321 |
Duluth, Minn., : Library Juice Press, 2006 | ||
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