Institutions of reading : the social life of libraries in the United States / edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter

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Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the bookPublication details: Amherts : University of Massachusetts Press, cop. 2007Description: x, 368 pISBN:

9781558495913

Summary: Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the contributors raise important questions about the material forms and social shapes of American culture. What is a library? How have libraries fostered communities of readers and influenced the practice of reading in particular communities? How did the development of modern libraries alter the boundaries of individual and social experience, and define new kinds of public culture? To what extent have libraries served as commercial enterprises, as centers of power, and as places of empowerment for African Americans, women, and immigrants? (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00614	1	Available		1900102702

Introduction / Thomas Augst -- 1. Social libraries and library societies in eighteenth-century North America / Jaes Raven -- 2. Subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in colonial philadelphia and New York / James Green -- 3. A great and natural enemy of democracy? Politics and culture in the Antebellum Portsmouth Athenaeum / Michael A. Baenen -- 4. "An Association of Kindred Spirits": black readers and their reading rooms / Elisabeth McHenry -- 5. Boston library catalogues, 1850-1875: female labor and technological change -- 6. Faith in reading: public libraries, liberalism, and the civil religion / Thomas Augst -- 7. Domesticating Spain: 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America / Elisabeth Amann -- 8. Women writers and their libraries in the 1920s / Karin Roffman -- 9. The Library as place, collection, or service: promoting book circulation in Durham, North Carolina, and at the Book-of-the-Month Club 1925-1945 / Janice Radway -- 10. Blood and thurner on the bookmobile: American public libraries and the construction of "the Reader" 1950-1995 / Christine Pawley -- 11. Toward a new cultural design: the American Council of Learned Societites, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter -- 12. Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig -- Notes on contributors -- Index

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