Reform and Reaction
Author | : Rosemary R. Dumont |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1977-09-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rosemary R. Dumont |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1977-09-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rosemary Ruhig Du Mont |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ernestine Rose |
Publisher | : New York : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Looks at the problems with public appreciation and lack of support for public libraries. Also looks at newer directions for libraries as a place for scholarship.
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth A. Breisch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262523462 |
An examination of Richardson's small public libraries that places them in the design, cultural, political, and economic contexts of their times.
Author | : Cheryl Knott |
Publisher | : UMass + ORM |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1613764332 |
Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller buildings and collections. While scholars have examined and continue to uncover the history of school segregation, there has been much less research published on the segregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South. In fact, much of the writing on public library history has failed to note these racial exclusions. In Not Free, Not for All, Cheryl Knott traces the establishment, growth, and eventual demise of separate public libraries for African Americans in the South, disrupting the popular image of the American public library as historically welcoming readers from all walks of life. Using institutional records, contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, and other primary sources together with scholarly work in the fields of print culture and civil rights history, Knott reconstructs a complex story involving both animosity and cooperation among whites and blacks who valued what libraries had to offer. African American library advocates, staff, and users emerge as the creators of their own separate collections and services with both symbolic and material importance, even as they worked toward dismantling those very institutions during the era of desegregation.
Author | : William Isaac Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abigail A. Van Slyck |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998-07-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226850320 |
Familiar landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries have shaped the public library experience of generations of Americans and today seen far from controversial. In Free to All, however, Abigail Van Slyck shows that the classical facades and symmetrical plans of these buildings often mask the complex and contentious circumstances of their construction and use.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |