Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Reading-Room and Libraries
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Lithgow Library and Reading Room
Author: Lithgow Library and Reading Room (Augusta, Me.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Reading-room and Libraries
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Full Circle
Author: Josephus Nelson
Publisher: Washington : Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Washington : Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
New Reading-Room and Libraries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Anthology Reading Room and Library
Author: Anthology Reading Room and Library (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Information for Readers in the Main Reading Room
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library rules and regulations
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library rules and regulations
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reading Room and New Library
Author: British Museum. Reading Room
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Christine Pawley
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299293238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other reference books, and literary genres including poetry, plays, and novels. Public libraries continue to have an extraordinary impact; in the early twenty-first century, the American Library Association reports that there are more public library branches than McDonald's restaurants in the United States. Much has been written about libraries from professional and managerial points of view, but less so from the perspectives of those most intimately involved—patrons and librarians. Drawing on circulation records, patron reviews, and other archived materials, Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America underscores the evolving roles that libraries have played in the lives of American readers. Each essay in this collection examines a historical circumstance related to reading in libraries. The essays are organized in sections on methods of researching the history of reading in libraries; immigrants and localities; censorship issues; and the role of libraries in providing access to alternative, nonmainstream publications. The volume shows public libraries as living spaces where individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds, needs, and desires encountered and used a great variety of texts, images, and other media throughout the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299293238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other reference books, and literary genres including poetry, plays, and novels. Public libraries continue to have an extraordinary impact; in the early twenty-first century, the American Library Association reports that there are more public library branches than McDonald's restaurants in the United States. Much has been written about libraries from professional and managerial points of view, but less so from the perspectives of those most intimately involved—patrons and librarians. Drawing on circulation records, patron reviews, and other archived materials, Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America underscores the evolving roles that libraries have played in the lives of American readers. Each essay in this collection examines a historical circumstance related to reading in libraries. The essays are organized in sections on methods of researching the history of reading in libraries; immigrants and localities; censorship issues; and the role of libraries in providing access to alternative, nonmainstream publications. The volume shows public libraries as living spaces where individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds, needs, and desires encountered and used a great variety of texts, images, and other media throughout the twentieth century.
Reading Rooms
Author: Susan Allen Toth
Publisher: New York : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
On cover: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries with stories, memoirs, essays, and poems.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
On cover: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries with stories, memoirs, essays, and poems.