Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book/ Published in Association With the Library Company of Philadelphia) - Softcover

 
9781558495913: Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book/ Published in Association With the Library Company of Philadelphia)

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The nature and purposes of the library in all its multiform manifestations are explored by scholars of library science, literature, and history. Their topics include subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in colonial Philadelphia and New York, 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America, women writers and their libraries during the 1920s, and preserving the past in a digital era. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Thomas Augst is associate professor of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Kenneth Carpenter is emeritus editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, Houghton Library.

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9781558495906: Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

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ISBN 10:  1558495908 ISBN 13:  9781558495906
Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007
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