Free to All

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Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920

Автор: Abigail A.Van Slyck

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Chicago Press

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Familiar Landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries have shaped the public library...

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Автор

Abigail A.Van Slyck

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1998

страници

304

EAN

9780226850320

ISBN

0226850323

Enbook ID

04550199

Издател

University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

568

Размери

155 x 238 x 19

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Familiar Landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries have shaped the public library experience of generations of Americans and today seen far from controversial. In Free to All, however, Abigail Van Slyck shows that the classical facades and symmetrical plans of these buildings often mask the complex and contentious circumstances of their construction and use. Free to All is the first comprehensive social and architectural history of the Carnegie library phenomenon, an unprecedented program of philanthropy that helped erect over 1600 public library buildings in the United States. Van Slyck skillfully untangles the overlapping and conflicting motives of the many people involved in erecting, staffing, and using the libraries: Andrew Carnegie himself; small-town civic boosters avid for new investment; metropolitan library trustees anxious to maintain the elite character of urban libraries; architects reacting to increased professional specialization; a growing number of female librarians; and the children and adults, frequently immigrants, who came to borrow books.

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