@book{bibcite_9339,
  author = {Tom Glynn},
  title = {Reading Publics: New York City{\textquoteright}s Public Libraries, 1754-1911},
  year = {2015},
  pages = {447 pp.},
  publisher = {Fordham University Press},
  address = {New York, NY},
  isbn = {9780823262649},
  note = {<p>Examines library services in New York prior to the establishment of the New York Public Library.\&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:\&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 </li><li>The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York </li><li>Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices{\textquoteright} Library in Antebellum New York </li><li>The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library </li><li>The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation </li><li>Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York{\textquoteright}s Subscription Libraries </li><li>"Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York{\textquoteright}s Public Research Libraries </li><li>Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York </li><li>New York{\textquoteright}s Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age </li><li>The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era </li><li>Afterword: Public Libraries and New York{\textquoteright}s Elusive Reading Publics</li></ul>},
  language = {English},
}