Download or read book Report on the Louisiana Library Demonstration 1925 30 written by Louisiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Louisiana Library Demonstration 1925 1930 written by Louisiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the President of the Treasurer written by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South written by Shirley A. Wiegand and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Biennial Report of the Louisiana State Library written by Louisiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by Louisiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Part of Our Lives written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story. In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as public places that promote and maintain community. Whether as a public space, a place for accessing information, or a home for reading material that helps patrons make sense of the world around them, the public library has a rich history of meaning for millions of Americans. From colonial times through the recent technological revolution, libraries have continuously adapted to better serve the needs of their communities. Wiegand demonstrates that, although cultural authorities (including some librarians) have often disparaged reading books considered not "serious," the commonplace reading materials users obtained from public libraries have had a transformative effect for many, including people such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Moyers, Edgwina Danticat, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey. A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions.

Download or read book Report of the President the Secretary the Treasurer written by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1921/22 includes a summary of all preceding grants of the corporation since its inception in 1911.

Download or read book Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana 1803 1934 written by Tennessee Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Spreading the Gospel of Books written by Florence M. Jumonville and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every parish by 1969. In Spreading the Gospel of Books, Florence M. Jumonville chronicles the impressive, colorful history of Louisiana parish libraries and the State Library of Louisiana. She draws upon Culver’s journals and library reports, in addition to correspondence, scrapbooks, and State Library internal documents, and includes photos from five decades, many never before published. The campaign to persuade individual parishes to financially support a library of their own was a long, uphill pull through poverty and politics, flood and famine, discouragement and depression, war and bureaucracy, ignorance and prejudice. Culver credited success to the citizens, whose thirst for books and embrace of the idea of a library inspired perseverance. In time, Culver’s Louisiana plan served as an exemplar of library development elsewhere in the United States as well as abroad. Culver touched the lives of generations of Louisianians who have never heard her name. Spreading the Gospel of Books is her story, along with that of colleagues and supporters, of making the dream of library service come true for all.

Download or read book The Bulletin written by Louisiana Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana 1803 1934 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of Louisiana Public School Libraries 1929 1965 written by James Sanders Cookston and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana 1803 1934 written by Louisiana Historical Records Survey and published by Baton Rouge, La. : Hill memorial library, Louisiana state university. This book was released on 1942 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Session written by Indian Historical Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Acting President written by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report for 1921/22 includes a summary of all preceding grants of the corporation since its inception in 1911.