Part of Our Lives

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  • Part of Our Lives Book Detail

  • Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
  • Release Date : 2015
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 345
  • ISBN 13 : 0190248009
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
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Part of Our Lives by Wayne A. Wiegand PDF Summary

Book Description: Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.

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