American Library History
Author | : Donald G. Davis |
Publisher | : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald G. Davis |
Publisher | : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Wayne A. Wiegand |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190248009 |
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
Author | : Michael H. Harris |
Publisher | : Washington : Microcard Editions |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Wayne A. Wiegand |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135787506 |
First Published in 1994. This book focuses on the historical development of the library as an institution. Its contents assume no single theoretical foundation or philosophical perspective but instead reflect the richly diverse opinions of its many contributors. This text is intended to serve as a reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students interested in library history, for library school educators whose teaching requires knowledge of the historical development of library institutions, services, and user groups, and for practicing library professionals.
Author | : Charles Knowles Bolton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Library Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Knowles Bolton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shirley A. Wiegand |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2018-04-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807168696 |
In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens. The Wiegands trace the struggle for equal access to the years before the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, when black activists in the South focused their efforts on equalizing accommodations, rather than on the more daunting—and dangerous—task of undoing segregation. After the ruling, momentum for vigorously pursuing equality grew, and black organizations shifted to more direct challenges to the system, including public library sit-ins and lawsuits against library systems. Although local groups often took direction from larger civil rights organizations, the energy, courage, and determination of younger black community members ensured the eventual desegregation of Jim Crow public libraries. The Wiegands examine the library desegregation movement in several southern cities and states, revealing the ways that individual communities negotiated—mostly peacefully, sometimes violently—the integration of local public libraries. This study adds a new chapter to the history of civil rights activism in the mid-twentieth century and celebrates the resolve of community activists as it weaves the account of racial discrimination in public libraries through the national narrative of the civil rights movement.
Author | : Tracey Overbey |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838949924 |
This first Special Report in a two-volume set on Black and African Americans’ experiences in libraries provides an overview of their historical exclusion from libraries and educational institutions in the United States, also exploring the ways in which this legacy is manifest in our contemporary context. A compelling call to action, it will serve as the beginning of many conversations in which librarianship reckons with its racist past to move towards a more equitable future. Still a predominantly white profession, librarianship has a legacy of racial discrimination, and it is essential that we face the ways that race impacts how we meet the needs of diverse user communities. Identifying and acknowledging implicit and learned bias is a necessary step toward transforming not only our professional practice but also our scholarship, assessment, and evaluation practices. From this Special Report, readers will learn the hidden history of Africa’s contributions to libraries and educational institutions, which are often omitted from K-12, higher education, and library school curricula; engage with the racist legacies of libraries as well as contemporary scholarship related to Black and African American users’ experiences with libraries; be introduced to frameworks and theories that can help to identify and unpack the role of race in librarianship and in library users’ experiences; and garner practical takeaways to bring to their own views and practice of librarianship.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : |
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