Part of our lives : a people's history of the American public library
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Part of our lives : a people's history of the American public library
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Physical Description:
331 pages : ill. ; 27 cm.
Summary:
"Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Instead, this book uses the voices of generations of public library users to argue that Americans have loved their libraries for the useful information they make accessible; the public spaces they provide; and the commonplace reading materials they supply that help users make sense of the world around them"--
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. 'Improv'd the General Conversation of Americans': Social Libraries Before 1854 -- 2. For 'Plain People': The American Public Library,1854-1876 -- 3. 'The Best Reading for the Greatest Number at the least Cost': 1876-1893 -- 4. 'The Liberty to Read What They Will and When': 1893-1917 -- 5. 'Habitations on a Literary Map:' 1917-1929 -- 6. 'One Island of Refuge': 1929-1945 -- 7. 'Winning the Battles of Daily Life': 1945-1964 -- 8. 'An Individual Meaning to Each User': 1964-1980 -- 9. 'Library Paste is a Precious Part of Social Glue': 1980-2000 -- Epilogue. 2000-Present.
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Publication Info:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subject:
| Public libraries -- United States -- History. |
| Libraries -- United States -- Public opinion -- History. |
| Public opinion -- United States -- History. |
| Library users -- United States -- Attitudes -- History. |
| Public libraries -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. |
| Libraries and community -- United States -- History. |
| Libraries and society -- United States -- History. |
| Books and reading -- United States -- History. |
| County libraries |
| Libraries, County |
| Opinion, Public |
| Perception, Public |
| Popular opinion |
| Public perception |
| Public perceptions |
| Library customers |
| Library patrons |
| Patrons of libraries |
| Readers (Library users) |
| Reading public (Library users) |
| Users of libraries |
| Community and libraries |
| Society and libraries |
SAILS ISBN:
9780190248000