English And American Public Libraries
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Author | : Wayne A. Wiegand |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190248009 |
Download Part of Our Lives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Sean D. Moore |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192573411 |
Download Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.
Author | : Kenneth A. Breisch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262523462 |
Download Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An examination of Richardson's small public libraries that places them in the design, cultural, political, and economic contexts of their times.
Author | : United States. Office of Education |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1240 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Download Public Libraries in the United States of America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : American Library Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Author | : Andrew Keogh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stati Uniti d' America : Bureau of education |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Download Public Libraries in the United States of America Their History, Condition and Management Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Theodore Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1997-04-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Download Carnegie Libraries Across America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
And with the help of original documents, including letters of petition by schoolteachers, bankers, and civic leaders from across the United States, he provides valuable insights into life in turn-of-the-century American towns and the values and aspirations of their citizens.
Author | : Andrew Keogh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Sylvan Bobinski |
Publisher | : Chicago : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Carnegie Libraries Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation provided funding for 1,681 public library buildings in 1,412 U.S. communities between 1889 and 1923. This philanthropy had a great impact on the growth of public library development in the United States. Free public libraries supported by local taxation had begun with Boston in 1849 and slowly spread throughout the country. The Carnegie benefactions made them leap forward. This internationally famous celebrity chose libraries as one of the primary sources for his philanthropy. He also attached two conditions to his offer of money for a public library building--the local community had to provide a suitable site and formally agree to continuously support the library through local tax funds. The latter solidified acceptance of the concept of tax support for libraries.