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Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Studies in Print Culture and History of the Book)
Christine Pawley
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Description for Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Studies in Print Culture and History of the Book)
Paperback. 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 Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GLMB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records, Christine Pawley reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to implement an official literacy policy. Central to the experiment were well-stocked bookmobiles that brought books to rural districts and the one-room schools that dotted the region. Three years after the project began, state officials and local librarians judged it an overwhelming success. Library circulation figures ... Read more
This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records, Christine Pawley reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to implement an official literacy policy. Central to the experiment were well-stocked bookmobiles that brought books to rural districts and the one-room schools that dotted the region. Three years after the project began, state officials and local librarians judged it an overwhelming success. Library circulation figures ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558498228
SKU
V9781558498228
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Reviews for Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Studies in Print Culture and History of the Book)
This book is alive with the voices of oral interviews and a density of wonderful details relating to rural Wisconsin's encounter with modern print culture...Though the book is a case study, its recourse to multiple layers of analysis and its comprehensive attention to the lived experience of individual readers and workers will be of wide significance, helping scholars and students ... Read more