Author: New York Public Library
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
Author: Elizabeth Diefendorf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760774687
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760774687
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
The New York Public Library Amazing Space
Author: New York Public Library Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780471245872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780471245872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Books, Please!
Author: New York Public Library
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report of the New York Public Library for ...
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
Author: Elizabeth Diefendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195117905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Documents an exhibition created to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the New York Public Library in 1995, profiling books that had a significant influence, consequence, or resonance during the library's first century. Lists over 150 titles, grouped within eleven categories.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195117905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Documents an exhibition created to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the New York Public Library in 1995, profiling books that had a significant influence, consequence, or resonance during the library's first century. Lists over 150 titles, grouped within eleven categories.
Reading Publics
Author: Tom Glynn
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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.
Libraries of Greater New York
Author: New York Library Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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