Wilson Library Bulletin [86].
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Release : 1986
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Author : Stanley Kunitz
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Page : 768 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Best books
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Release : 1939
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Release : 1987
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Author : Jeanette C. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 078649056X
Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny. The spectrum of library humor from sources inside and outside the profession ranges from the subtle wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This examination of American library humor over the past 200 years covers a wide range of topics and spans the continuum between light and dark, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as objects of fear. It illuminates different types of librarians--the collector, the organization person, the keeper, the change agent--and explores stereotypes like the shushing little old lady with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the sexy librarian. Profiles of the most prominent library humorists round out this lively study.
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Release : 1995
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
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Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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Page : 904 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Bibliographical literature
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"An index to library and information science".
Author : Barbra Buckner Higginbotham
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838906071
1- Introduction. 2- A Point of Embarkation: "What's Past Is Prologue". 3- Cooperative Relationships: "We Band of Brothers". 4- Reciprocal Agreements: "He That Runs May Read". 5- Interlending: "Friends Share All Things". 6- Commercial Document Suppliers: " For All We Take We Must Pay, But the Price Is Cruel High". 7- Approaches to Documents Delivery: Deliberate Speed, Majestic Instancy". 8- Making Decisions for Access: "A Mighty Maze! But Not without a Plan". 9- Shaping Our Future: "Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On". Appendix. Bibliography. Index.
Author : Shirley A. Wiegand
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2018-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0807168688
In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens. The Wiegands trace the struggle for equal access to the years before the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, when black activists in the South focused their efforts on equalizing accommodations, rather than on the more daunting—and dangerous—task of undoing segregation. After the ruling, momentum for vigorously pursuing equality grew, and black organizations shifted to more direct challenges to the system, including public library sit-ins and lawsuits against library systems. Although local groups often took direction from larger civil rights organizations, the energy, courage, and determination of younger black community members ensured the eventual desegregation of Jim Crow public libraries. The Wiegands examine the library desegregation movement in several southern cities and states, revealing the ways that individual communities negotiated—mostly peacefully, sometimes violently—the integration of local public libraries. This study adds a new chapter to the history of civil rights activism in the mid-twentieth century and celebrates the resolve of community activists as it weaves the account of racial discrimination in public libraries through the national narrative of the civil rights movement.