Author: Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York, Circulating Department, July 1900
Author: Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Reading Publics
Author: Tom GlynnPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
New-York Library Club Manual
Author: New York Library ClubPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Class List
Author: Salem Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
New-York Library Club Manual
Author: Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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