Download or read book Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the New York Society Library written by New York Society Library and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Download or read book Reading Publics written by Tom Glynn and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia written by Library company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia Sciences and arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library written by Boston Public Library. Barton Collection and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library Catalogue of the miscellaneous portion of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library written by Boston Public Library. Barton Collection and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Fictive People written by Ronald J. Zboray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. A Fictive People explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first, that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and, second, that there was a body of nineteenth-century literature that reflected a "nation of readers." Zboray shows that the output of the press was so diverse and the public so indiscriminate in what it would read that we must rethink these conclusions. The essential elements for the rise of publishing turn out not to be the usual suspects of rising literacy and increased schooling. Zboray turns our attention to the railroad as well as private letter writing to see the creation of a national taste for literature. He points out the ambiguous role of the nineteenth-century school in encouraging reading and convincingly demonstrates that we must look more deeply to see why the nation turned to literature. He uses such data as sales figures and library borrowing to reveal that women read as widely as men and that the regional breakdown of sales focused the power of print.

Download or read book Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi With Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi and Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 and Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: