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Title:
Institutions of reading : the social life of libraries in the United States / edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter.
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
x, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Libraries and society--United States--History.
Books and reading--United States--History.
Books and reading--Social aspects--United States.
United States--Intellectual life.
Other Authors:
Augst, Thomas.
Carpenter, Kenneth E., 1936-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Scarcity or abundance? : preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig. Subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York / James Green -- A great and natural enemy of democracy? : politics and culture in the antebellum Portsmouth Athenæum / Michael A. Baenen -- "An association of kindred spirits" : Black readers and their reading rooms / Elizabeth McHenry -- Boston library catalogues, 1850-1875 : female labor and technological change / Barbara A. Mitchell -- Faith in reading : public libraries, liberalism, and the civil religion / Thomas Augst -- Domesticating Spain : 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America / Elizabeth Amann -- Women writers and their libraries in the 1920s / Karin Roffman -- The library as place, collection, or service : promoting book circulation in Durham, North Carolina, and at the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1925-1945 / Janice Radway -- Blood and thunder on the bookmobile : American public libraries and the construction of "the reader," 1950-1995 / Christine Pawley -- Toward a new cultural design : the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter -- Scarcity or abundance? : preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig.
Series:
Studies in print culture and the history of the book
ISBN:
1558495916 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558495913 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558495908 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781558495906 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)81861443
LCCN:
2007004226
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)
IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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