TY  - BOOK
AU  - Felsenstein,Frank
AU  - Connolly,James J.
TI  - What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City
T2  - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series
SN  - 9781613763537
AV  - Z1003 
U1  - 028/.909112650909034 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Libraries and community - Indiana - Muncie - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A City and its Library -- "Now We Are a City": Portrait of a Boomtown -- 2. "A Magnificent Array of Books": The Origins and Development of the Muncie Public Library -- 3. Cosmopolitan Trends: Print Culture and the Public Library in 1890s Muncie -- Part II: Reading Experiences -- 4. Borrowing Patterns: The Muncie Public Library and its Patrons -- 5. "Bread Sweet as Honey": Reading, Education, and the Public Library -- 6. Reading and Reform: The Role of Fiction in the Civic Imagination of Muncie's Activist Women -- 7. Schoolboys and Social Butterflies: Profiling Middletown Readers -- Epilogue. Looking Backward, Looking Forward -- Appendix. The What Middletown Read Database -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
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