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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Iowa Regional Library System
Author: Iowa Regional Library System
Author: Iowa Regional Library System Statistics
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
SUMMARY: Displays collectively the use of regional funds and resources. Compiled from annual surveys from the administrative units of the Regional Library System.
Iowa Regional Library System
Author: Iowa Library Quarterly
Author: A Financial and Narrative Description of the Seven Iowa Regional Library Systems as Assembled from Various Reports
Author: Iowa Library Commission. Library Development DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Main Street Public Library
Author: Wayne A. WiegandPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The United States has more public libraries than it has McDonald’s restaurants. By any measure, the American public library is a heavily used and ubiquitous institution. Popular thinking identifies the public library as a neutral agency that protects democratic ideals by guarding against censorship as it makes information available to people from all walks of life. Among librarians this idea is known as the “library faith.” But is the American public library as democratic as it appears to be? In Main Street Public Library, eminent library historian Wayne Wiegand studies four emblematic small-town libraries in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the federal Library Service Act of 1956, and shows that these institutions served a much different purpose than is so often perceived. Rather than acting as neutral institutions that are vital to democracy, the libraries of Sauk Centre, Minnesota; Osage, Iowa; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; and Lexington, Michigan, were actually mediating community literary values and providing a public space for the construction of social harmony. These libraries, and the librarians who ran them, were often just as susceptible to the political and social pressures of their time as any other public institution. By analyzing the collections of all four libraries and revealing what was being read and why certain acquisitions were passed over, Wiegand challenges both traditional perceptions and professional rhetoric about the role of libraries in our small-town communities. While the American public library has become essential to its local community, it is for reasons significantly different than those articulated by the “library faith.”
What Libraries Mean to the Nation
Author: Eleanor RooseveltPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
In Service to Iowa
Author: Library Services System for Iowa
Author: Iowa. Commission of Libraries. Library Services Task ForcePublisher:
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Category : Library districts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description