TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiegand,Wayne A.
TI  - Part of our lives: a people's history of the American public library 
SN  - 9780190248000 (hardback)
AV  - Z731 .W734 2015
U1  - 027.473 2 3
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Public libraries
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Library users
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Libraries and community
KW  - Libraries and society
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
N1  - Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. 'Improv'd the General Conversation of Americans': Social Libraries Before 1854 -- 2. For 'Plain People': The American Public Library,1854-1876 -- 3. 'The Best Reading for the Greatest Number at the least Cost': 1876-1893 -- 4. 'The Liberty to Read What They Will and When': 1893-1917 -- 5. 'Habitations on a Literary Map:' 1917-1929 -- 6. 'One Island of Refuge': 1929-1945 -- 7. 'Winning the Battles of Daily Life': 1945-1964 -- 8. 'An Individual Meaning to Each User': 1964-1980 -- 9. 'Library Paste is a Precious Part of Social Glue': 1980-2000 -- Epilogue. 2000-Present
N2  - "Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Instead, this book uses the voices of generations of public library users to argue that Americans have loved their libraries for the useful information they make accessible; the public spaces they provide; and the commonplace reading materials they supply that help users make sense of the world around them"--
ER  -