Reading Places - Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America

Informationen zum Autor Christine Pawley is director of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. She is author of Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa , which won the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award of the State Historical Society of Iowa. Klappentext Examines the role of public libraries during a time of national anxiety Zusammenfassung Recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s. Using interviews and library records! it reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers! showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to

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• Authors: Christine Pawley
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2010
• EAN: 9781558498228
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-822-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book; Studies in Print Culture and t; Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system