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Reading Publics: New York City´s Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Tom Glynn
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Description for Reading Publics: New York City´s Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Paperback. A history of public libraries in New York City before the founding of the New York Public Library. Most of these libraries were accessible through a membership or an annual subscription. Explores the private and public purposes of public libraries before the advent of tax-supported public libraries. Num Pages: 460 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its marble palace for book lovers on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city's first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York's reading publics had access to a range of public libraries as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public ... Read more
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its marble palace for book lovers on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city's first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York's reading publics had access to a range of public libraries as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
460
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823276813
SKU
V9780823276813
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Ref
99-15
About Tom Glynn
Tom Glynn is a librarian at Rutgers University, where he is the selector and liaison for British and American history, the history of science, American studies, and political science.
Reviews for Reading Publics: New York City´s Public Libraries, 1754-1911
. . . Tom Glynn recalls how the libraries were transformed into a uniquely accessible resource through a public-private partnership made possible by Gilded Age philanthropy.
-Sam Roberts, The New York Times
A wonderful book. Thoroughly enjoyable.
-Christine Pawley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
For anyone studying the history of public libraries this will ... Read more
-Sam Roberts, The New York Times
A wonderful book. Thoroughly enjoyable.
-Christine Pawley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
For anyone studying the history of public libraries this will ... Read more