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Author : Jesse Hauk Shera
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Foundations of the Public Library written by Jesse Hauk Shera and published by Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Swett Green
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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book The Public Library Movement in the United States 1853-1893 written by Samuel Swett Green and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Towsey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004348670
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Before the Public Library written by Mark Towsey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.
Author : Shirley A. Wiegand
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807168696
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South written by Shirley A. Wiegand and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mike Selby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115549
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Freedom Libraries written by Mike Selby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into how Freedom Libraries were at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only, and there was another virtually unheard of struggle— the right to read.
Author : Samuel Swett Green
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020169878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Public Library Movement In The United States 1853-1893 written by Samuel Swett Green and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study of the public library movement in the United States during the years 1853-1893. Samuel Swett Green meticulously details the history, progress and significance of the movement during that period, providing a valuable historical perspective on the development of libraries as spaces for civic and cultural enrichment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Elmer D. Johnson
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810802834
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Libraries in the Western World written by Elmer D. Johnson and published by Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Swett Green
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Public Library Movement in the United States written by Samuel Swett Green and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848024540
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English Public Library 1850-1939 written by Simon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many important political and social reforms of the mid 19th century concerning working conditions, public health and education was the Public Libraries Act of 1850. However, while this allowed municipal boroughs in England and Wales to establish public libraries, few were built until Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 precipitated the setting up of several dozen. During the 1880s and 90s private philanthropy saw the construction of a vast number of small and medium sized libraries, and by 1914, 62 per cent of the England's population lived within a library authority area. This selection guide looks at the external architecture of the libraries built under these and later initiatives, and how they were fitted out and used as access to their book-stock was opened up to readers.
Author : Sidney Herbert Ditzion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arsenals of a Democratic Culture written by Sidney Herbert Ditzion and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
