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Institutions of reading : the social life of libraries in the United States / edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z716.4 .I57 2007
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Z716.4 .I57 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries--United States--History.
- Libraries.
- Books and reading--Social aspects.
- Books and reading.
- History.
- Libraries and society.
- United States.
- Libraries and society--United States--History.
- Books and reading--United States--History.
- Books and reading--Social aspects--United States.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Social libraries and library societies in eighteenth-century North America / James Raven
- Subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York / James Green
- A great and natural enemy of democracy? : politics and culture in the antebellum Portsmouth Athenæum / Michael A. Baenen
- "An association of kindred spirits" : Black readers and their reading rooms / Elizabeth McHenry
- Boston library catalogues, 1850-1875 : female labor and technological change / Barbara A. Mitchell
- Faith in reading : public libraries, liberalism, and the civil religion / Thomas Augst
- Domesticating Spain : 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America / Elizabeth Amann
- Women writers and their libraries in the 1920s / Karin Roffman
- 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
- Blood and thunder on the bookmobile : American public libraries and the construction of "the reader," 1950-1995 / Christine Pawley
- Toward a new cultural design : the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter
- Scarcity or abundance? : preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Institutions of reading.
- ISBN:
- 9781558495906
- 1558495908
- 9781558495913
- 1558495916
- OCLC:
- 81861443
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