TY - BOOK AU - Pawley,Christine AU - Robbins,Louise S. TI - Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America T2 - Print culture history in modern America SN - 9780299293246 AV - Z731 .L546 2013 U1 - 027.473 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Madison, Wisconsin PB - The University of Wisconsin Press KW - Public libraries KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Books and reading N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contenidos: Preface Introduction — Christine Pawley Part 1: Methods and Evidence Community Places and Reading Spaces: Main Street Public Library in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 — Wayne A. Wiegand Reading Library Records: Constructing and Using the What Middletown Read Database — Frank Felsenstein, John Straw, Katharine Leigh, and James J. Connolly "Story Develops Badly, Could Not Finish": Member Book Reviews at the Boston Athenæum in the 1920s — Ross Harvey "A Search for Better Ways into the Future": The Library of Congress and Its Users in the Interwar Period — Jane Aikin Part 2: Public Libraries, Readers, and Localities Going to “America”: Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900–1920 — Ellen M. Pozzi "A Liberal and Dignified Approach": The John Toman Branch of the Chicago Public Library and the Making of Americans, 1927–1940 — Joyce M. Latham Counter Culture: The World as Viewed from Inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944–1956 — Jean Preer Part 3: Intellectual Freedom Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I — Julia Skinner Locating the Library in the Nonlibrary Censorship of the 1950s: Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record — Joan Bessman Taylor “Is Your Public Library Family Friendly?”: Libraries as a Site of Conservative Activism, 1992–2002 — Loretta M. Gaffney The Challengers of West Bend: The Library as a Community Institution — Emily Knox Part 4: Librarians and the Alternative Press Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press by and for Activist Librarians — Alycia Sellie From the Underground to the Stacks and Beyond: Girl Zines, Zine Librarians, and the Importance of Itineraries through Print Culture — Janice A. Radway Contributors Index N2 - 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 ER -