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| 505 | 0_ | $aIntroduction: information, reading, place -- Pride of a century: the Bryant Library of Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- A credit to the place: the Sage Library of Osage, Iowa -- Tourist attraction: the Charles H. Moore Library of Lexington, Michigan -- Those commission ideas: the Rhinelander Public Library of Rhinelander, Wisconsin -- Literature suitable for a small public library: Main Street public library collections -- Epilogue: agent of social harmony. |
| 520 | $aThe author studies four 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 often perceived. Rather than acting as neutral institutions that are vital to democracy, these libraries were actually mediating community literary values and providing a public space for the construction of social harmony. The 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, the atuhor 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." | |
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| 520 | $aThe 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. | |
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