Grolier Club copy inscribed by Kenneth Carpenter (Nov. 17, 2007)
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Social libraries and library societies in eighteenth-century North America / James Raven -- Subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York / James Green -- A great and natural enemy of democracy? : politics and culture in the antebellum Portsmouth Athenæum / Michael A. Baenen -- "An association of kindred spirits" : Black readers and their reading rooms / Elizabeth McHenry -- Boston library catalogues, 1850-1875 : female labor and technological change / Barbara A. Mitchell -- Faith in reading : public libraries, liberalism, and the civil religion / Thomas Augst -- Domesticating Spain : 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America / Elizabeth Amann -- Women writers and their libraries in the 1920s / Karin Roffman -- The library as place, collection, or service : promoting book circulation in Durham, North Carolina, and at the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1925-1945 / Janice Radway -- Blood and thunder on the bookmobile : American public libraries and the construction of "the reader," 1950-1995 / Christine Pawley -- Toward a new cultural design : the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter -- Scarcity or abundance? : preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig