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The library as agency of culture
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- Creator
- guest editors, Thomas Augst and Wayne A. Wiegand
- Other Title
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- Libraries as agencies of culture
- Included Title
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- American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]
- Physical Details
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- 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780299183042, 0299183041
- OCLC
- ocm56359535
- Originally published as a special issue, Vol. 42, no. 3 (fall 2001), of: American studies.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- American libraries and agencies of culture / Thomas Augst -- Sound of the civic : reading noise at the New York Public Library / Ari Kelman -- High culture, low culture : the singular duality of the Library of Congress / Elizabeth Jane Aikin -- Home libraries and the institutionalization of everyday practices among antebellum New Englanders / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Reading versus the red bull : cultural constructions of democracy and the public library in cold war Wisconsin / Christine Pawley -- Celebration of health in the Celebration Library / Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb -- Exploring the American idea at the New York Public Library / Jean L. Preer -- "We have become too tender-hearted" : the language of gender in the public library, 1880-1920 / Jacalyn Eddy -- Roosevelt Presidential Library : a shift in commemoration / Benjamin Hufbauer -- Antebellum libraries in Richmond and New Orleans and the search for the practices and preferences of "real" readers / Emily B. Todd
Subjects
- Libraries and society -- United States.
- Libraries -- United States -- History.
- Libraries -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Social change -- United States.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- History.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.