Wayne A Wiegand

Part of Our Lives

A People's History of the American Public Library. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 344 Seiten
ISBN 0190248009
EAN 9780190248000
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2015
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung

Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy.

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Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University and former director of the Florida Book Awards. Often referred to as the "Dean of American library historians," he is the author of more than one hundred articles and numerous award-winning books, including An Active Instrument for Propaganda: American Public Libraries During World War I and Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. In 2008-9, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow to support his research on the American Public Library. He now lives in the California Bay area.

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