| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) |
| Series |
Iowa and the Midwest experience |
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Iowa and the Midwest experience.
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| Contents |
Introduction : information, reading, place -- Pride of a century : the Bryant Library of Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- A credit to the place : the Sage Library of Osage, Iowa -- Tourist attraction : the Charles H. Moore Library of Lexington, Michigan -- Those commission ideas : the Rhinelander Public Library of Rhinelander, Wisconsin -- Literature suitable for a small public library : Main Street public library collections -- Epilogue : agent of social harmony |
| Summary |
The United States has more public libraries than it has McDonald's restaurants. By any measure, the American public library is a heavily used and ubiquitous institution. Popular thinking identifies the public library as a neutral agency that protects democratic ideals by guarding against censorship as it makes information available to people from all walks of life. Among librarians this idea is known as the "library faith." But is the American public library as democratic as it appears to be? In Main Street Public Library, eminent library historian Wayne Wiegand studies four |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public libraries -- Middle West -- History
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Rural libraries -- Middle West -- History
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Libraries and community -- Middle West -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Libraries and community
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Public libraries
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Rural libraries
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Middle West
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011013862 |
| ISBN |
9781609380687 |
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1609380681 |
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