Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America / 
edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins. 
 - viii, 281 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - Print culture history in modern America .
 - Print culture history in modern America. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Contenidos: Preface<br/><br/>Introduction — Christine Pawley<br/><br/>Part 1: Methods and Evidence<br/><br/>Community Places and Reading Spaces: Main Street Public Library in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 — Wayne A. Wiegand<br/><br/>Reading Library Records: Constructing and Using the What Middletown Read Database — Frank Felsenstein, John Straw, Katharine Leigh, and James J. Connolly<br/><br/>"Story Develops Badly, Could Not Finish": Member Book Reviews at the Boston Athenæum in the 1920s — Ross Harvey<br/><br/>"A Search for Better Ways into the Future": The Library of Congress and Its Users in the Interwar Period — Jane Aikin<br/><br/>Part 2: Public Libraries, Readers, and Localities<br/><br/>Going to “America”: Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900–1920 — Ellen M. Pozzi<br/><br/>"A Liberal and Dignified Approach": The John Toman Branch of the Chicago Public Library and the Making of Americans, 1927–1940 — Joyce M. Latham<br/><br/>Counter Culture: The World as Viewed from Inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944–1956 — Jean Preer<br/><br/>Part 3: Intellectual Freedom<br/><br/>Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I — Julia Skinner<br/><br/>Locating the Library in the Nonlibrary Censorship of the 1950s: Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record — Joan Bessman Taylor<br/><br/>“Is Your Public Library Family Friendly?”: Libraries as a Site of Conservative Activism, 1992–2002 — Loretta M. Gaffney<br/><br/>The Challengers of West Bend: The Library as a Community Institution — Emily Knox<br/><br/>Part 4: Librarians and the Alternative Press<br/><br/>Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press by and for Activist Librarians — Alycia Sellie<br/><br/>From the Underground to the Stacks and Beyond: Girl Zines, Zine Librarians, and the Importance of Itineraries through Print Culture — Janice A. Radway<br/><br/>Contributors<br/><br/>Index 
<br/><br/> Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth‑Century America is an edited collection that explores how public libraries in the United States have served as dynamic community spaces for reading, access to print culture, and public life throughout the 20th century. It emphasizes the user experience — what actual readers did in libraries, how they interacted with collections, how libraries responded (or didn’t) to societal changes, and how issues like immigration, censorship, and alternative print cultures shaped library services. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780299293246 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012040073 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public libraries--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Books and reading--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z731  / .L546 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>027.473