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Patrick Williams

The American Public Library and the Problem of Purpose

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The problem of purpose in the title is the 130-year debate within the library community over the proper place for the library in society. Chapters discuss roles for public libraries from the founding of the Boston Public Library with its clear educational purpose through attempts at rational planning for library roles in the 1980s. The controversy about the place of popular fiction in American libraries in the late 19th century; the militant outreach efforts during the early decades of the 20th century; the adult education phase during the 1920s to 1940s; and the library as an information nexus for the people during the late 1960s and 1970s a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-313-25590-8
  • EAN: 9780313255908
  • Produktnummer: 1517977
  • Verlag: Greenwood Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
  • Seitenangabe: 158 S.
  • Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.3 cm 410 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 410

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