Libraries As Agencies of Culture (Volume 42, No. 3 of American Studies)

Name: Libraries As Agencies of Culture (Volume 42, No. 3 of American Studies)
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ISBN: 9780299183042

ISBN-10: 0299183041

ISBN-13: 9780299183042

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas Augst, Wayne A. Wiegand

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Libraries—public, school, and academic libraries—are ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays explore the role of the library in the life of the reader and the library as a place in the life of its users. Contributors are Thomas Augst, Ari Kelman, Elizabeth Jane Aikin, Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Christine Pawley, Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb, Jean L. Preer, Jacalyn Eddy, Benjamin Hufbauer, and Emily B. Todd.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 10/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Articles


Introduction: American Libraries and Agencies of Culture



The Sound of the Civic: Reading Noise at the New York Public Library



High Culture, Low Culture: The Singular Duality of the Library of Congress



Home Libraries and the Institutionalization of Everyday Practices Among Antebellum New Englanders



Reading versus the Red Bull: Cultural Constructions of Democracy and the Public Library in Cold War Wisconsin



The Celebration of Health in the Celebration Library



Exploring the American Idea at the New York Public Library



"We Have Become Too Tender-Hearted": The Language of Gender in the Public Library, 1880-1920



The Roosevelt Presidential Library: A Shift in Commemoration



Research Note


Antebellum Libraries in Richmond and New Orleans and the Search for the Practices and Preferences of "Real" Readers



Notes on Contributors