TY - SER
AU - Tom Glynn
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - <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' 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's Subscription Libraries </li><li>"Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries </li><li>Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York </li><li>New York'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's Elusive Reading Publics</li></ul>
PB - Fordham University Press
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2015
SN - 9780823262649
EP - 447 pp.
TI - Reading Publics: New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
ER -