TY - SER
AU - Thomas Augst
AU - Wayne A. Wiegand
BT - Print culture history in modern America
CY - Madison, WI
LA - English
N1 - Also published as a special issue of American Studies, Vol. 42, no. 3 (fall 2001).

Contents:
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 Saracno 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
PB - University of Wisconsin Press
PP - Madison, WI
PY - 2003
SN - 9780299183042
EP - 210 pp.
T2 - Print culture history in modern America
TI - Libraries as an Agency of Culture
ER -