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Before The Public Library

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Author : Mark R. M. Towsey
language : en
Publisher: Library of the Written Word
Release Date : 2018

Before The Public Library written by Mark R. M. Towsey and has been published by Library of the Written Word this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.

Before the Public Libraryexplores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important - and largely unrecognized - role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

Before The Public Library

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Author : Mark Towsey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-10-23

Before The Public Library written by Mark Towsey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with History categories.

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

Public Library Service Demonstration Bill Hearing Before A Subcommittee On S 1920 May 29 1946 79th Congress 2d Session

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946

Public Library Service Demonstration Bill Hearing Before A Subcommittee On S 1920 May 29 1946 79th Congress 2d Session written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with categories.

A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Public Library And To The City Library Of Norwich

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Author : Norwich (England). Public Libraries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847

A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Public Library And To The City Library Of Norwich written by Norwich (England). Public Libraries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with categories.

Public Library Construction 1965 1978

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

Public Library Construction 1965 1978 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Federal aid to libraries categories.

A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Public Library And To The City Library Of Norwich Methodically Arranged With An Alphabetical Index Of The Authors First Third Appendix

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Author : Public Library (NORWICH)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847

A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Public Library And To The City Library Of Norwich Methodically Arranged With An Alphabetical Index Of The Authors First Third Appendix written by Public Library (NORWICH) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with categories.

Reading Publics

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Author : Tom Glynn
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2015-01-22

Reading Publics written by Tom Glynn and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with History categories.

On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.