Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach

Contents:
Foreword by Kathleen de la Pena McCook
Introduction
Books along the Bayous: reading materials for two centuries of rural Louisiana / Florence M. Jumonville
Harper & Brothers' family and school district libraries, 1830-1846 / Robert S. Freeman
Benevolence at sea: shipboard libraries for the American Navy and Merchant Marine / David M. Hovde
Valleys without sunsets: women's clubs and traveling libraries / Paula D. Watson
The ALA Committee on work with the foreign born and the movement to Americanize the immigrant / Plummer Alston Jones, Jr.
Reachin' behind bars: library outreach to prisoners, 1798-2000 / Larry E. Sullivan and Brenda Vogel
The Indiana Township Library Program, 1852-1872: "A well selected, circulating library as an educational instrumentality" / Robert S. Freeman and David M. Hofde.
The adult collection at Nashville's negro public library, 1915-1916 / Cheryl Knott Malone
Historical overview of tribal libraries in the lower forty-eight states / Lotsee Patterson
Electronic outreach in America: from telegraph to television / John Fritch
"On the roof of the library nearest you": America's open-air libraries, 1905-1944 / Gerald S. Greenberg
The use of radio to promote the municipal reference library of the city of New York / Barry W. Seaver
Synergy, social responsibility, and the sixties: pivotal points in the evolution of American outreach library service / Toni Samek
For the love of books: Eddie Lovett and his backwoods library / Emily J. Branson and John Mark Tucker