text Part of our lives : a people's history of the American public library
- Summary
- "Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that m... Read more
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. 'Improv'd the General Conversation of Americans': Social Libraries Before 1854 -- 2. For 'Plain People': The American Public Library,1854-1876 -- 3. 'The Best Reading for the Greatest Number a... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- 331 pages ; 26 cm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press 2015
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