Public Libraries for Everyone; the Growth and Development of Library Services in the United States
Author : Hawthorne Daniel
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Hawthorne Daniel
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Hawthorne Daniel
Publisher : Garden City : Doubleday
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Libraries
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Author : Cheryl Knott
Publisher : UMass + ORM
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1613764332
Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller buildings and collections. While scholars have examined and continue to uncover the history of school segregation, there has been much less research published on the segregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South. In fact, much of the writing on public library history has failed to note these racial exclusions. In Not Free, Not for All, Cheryl Knott traces the establishment, growth, and eventual demise of separate public libraries for African Americans in the South, disrupting the popular image of the American public library as historically welcoming readers from all walks of life. Using institutional records, contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, and other primary sources together with scholarly work in the fields of print culture and civil rights history, Knott reconstructs a complex story involving both animosity and cooperation among whites and blacks who valued what libraries had to offer. African American library advocates, staff, and users emerge as the creators of their own separate collections and services with both symbolic and material importance, even as they worked toward dismantling those very institutions during the era of desegregation.
Author : Hawthorne Daniel
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Leslie Edmonds Holt
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838910505
For many poor people, the library is their only resource for information, literacy, entertainment, language skills, employment help, free computer use, and even safety and shelter. Get concrete advice about programs and support for this group.
Author : Jeffrey T. Davis
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838915817
Public libraries' mission, skills, and position in their communities make them ideal facilitators of public access to local resources. In other words, the collection is all around, and libraries can help citizens discover historical, cultural, and natural riches that they might otherwise overlook.
Author : Abigail A. Van Slyck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1998-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226850320
Familiar landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries have shaped the public library experience of generations of Americans and today seen far from controversial. In Free to All, however, Abigail Van Slyck shows that the classical facades and symmetrical plans of these buildings often mask the complex and contentious circumstances of their construction and use.
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Libraries
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Libraries
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Author : California State Library
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Libraries
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Details on the state library and city public libraries; society, college, and private libraries; finding lists; librarians and library employees, and the state printing office.