The Library as an Agency of Change

Reference Type Journal
Language
English
Volume
42
Year of Publication
2001
Author
Editor: Thomas Augst
Editor: Wayne A. Wiegand
Region
United States
Library Type
National Libraries
Private/Personal Library
Public Libraries
Social/Subscription Libraries
State/Government Libraries
Demographics
Women
Chronological Period
1850-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
Annotation
  • 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.
Issue Title
American Studies
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