Download or read book A Town Library in Action a Study of the Town Library as a Social Institution in Richmond Utah March 1939 written by Rulon Squires McCarrey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Utah Humanities Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Main Street Public Library written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has more public libraries than it has McDonald’s restaurants. By any measure, the American public library is a heavily used and ubiquitous institution. Popular thinking identifies the public library as a neutral agency that protects democratic ideals by guarding against censorship as it makes information available to people from all walks of life. Among librarians this idea is known as the “library faith.” But is the American public library as democratic as it appears to be? In Main Street Public Library, eminent library historian Wayne Wiegand studies four emblematic small-town libraries in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the federal Library Service Act of 1956, and shows that these institutions served a much different purpose than is so often perceived. Rather than acting as neutral institutions that are vital to democracy, the libraries of Sauk Centre, Minnesota; Osage, Iowa; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; and Lexington, Michigan, were actually mediating community literary values and providing a public space for the construction of social harmony. These libraries, and the librarians who ran them, were often just as susceptible to the political and social pressures of their time as any other public institution. By analyzing the collections of all four libraries and revealing what was being read and why certain acquisitions were passed over, Wiegand challenges both traditional perceptions and professional rhetoric about the role of libraries in our small-town communities. While the American public library has become essential to its local community, it is for reasons significantly different than those articulated by the “library faith.”

Download or read book The Library and the Community written by Joseph Lewis Wheeler and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1924 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Role of the Library in Collecting Information and Giving Service to the Serious Student and Research Worker written by University of Texas. Graduate School of Library Science and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Public Library and the Diffusion of Knowledge written by William Setchel Learned and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1924 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The American Public Library as a Social Institution written by Lowell Arthur Martin and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Starving Libraries written by Robert Luther Duffus and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1933 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Library of Tomorrow written by Emily Miller Danton and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1939 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II written by Patti Clayton Becker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele of women and children seeking recreational reading. This work examines how libraries could respond to their communities need through the use of numerous primary and secondary sources.

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