Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America.

Intro -- Contents -- 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.

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