Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America

Contents: Introduction / Christine Pawley Methods and Evidence. Community Places and Reading Spaces: Main Street Public Library in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956 / Wayne A. Wiegand Reading Library Records: Constructing and Using the What Middletown Read Database / Frank Felsenstein, John Straw, Katharine Leigh, and James J. Connolly "Story Develops Badly, Could Not Finish": Member Book Reviews at the Boston Athenæum in the 1920s / Ross Harvey "A Search for Better Ways into the Future": The Library of Congress and Its Users in the Interwar Period / Jane Aikin Public Libraries, Readers, and Localities. Going to "America": Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900-1920 / Ellen M. Pozzi "A Liberal and Dignified Approach" : The John Toman Branch of the Chicago Public Library and the Making of Americans, 1927-1940 / Joyce M. Latham Counter Culture: The World as Viewed from Inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944-1956 / Jean Preer Intellectual Freedom. Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I / Julia Skinner Locating the Library in the Nonlibrary Censorship of the 1950s: Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record / Joan Bessman Taylor "Is Your Public Library Family Friendly?": Libraries as a Site of Conservative Activism, 1992-2002 / Loretta M. Gaffney The Challengers of West Bend: The Library as a Community Institution / Emily Knox Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press by and for Activist Librarians / Alycia Sellie From the Underground to the Stacks and Beyond: Girl Zines, Zine Librarians, and the Importance of Itineraries through Print Culture / Janice A. Radway