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Title:

Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America / edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins.

Publisher:

The University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Public libraries--United States--History--20th century.
Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
USA.
Books and reading.
Public libraries.
United States.
1900 - 1999

Other Authors:

Pawley, Christine, 1945-
Robbins, Louise S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

From the underground to the stacks and beyond : girl zines, zine librarians, and the importance of itineraries through print culture / Janice A. Radway 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 Athen℗æum in the 1920s / Ross Harvey -- "A search for better ways into the future" : the Library of Congress and its users in the interwar period / Jane Aikin -- 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 viewed from inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944-1956 / Jean Preer -- Censorship in the heartland : Eastern Iowa libraries during World War I / Julia Skinner -- Locating the library in the nonlibrary censorship of the 1950s : 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 challenges of West Bend : the library as a community institution / Emily Knox -- 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

Series:

Print culture history in modern America

ISBN:

9780299293239 (e-book)
0299293238 (e-book)
0299293246 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299293246 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)812531254

LCCN:

2012040073

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)