Libraries: traditions and innovations papers from the Library History Seminar XIII / edited by Melanie A. Kimball and Katherine M. Wisser.

Other author Kimball, Melanie A.
Other author Wisser, Katherine M.
Other author Libraries : Traditions and Innovations (Conference) (2015 : Boston, Mass.)
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Publication InfoBerlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Saur, [2017]
Description154 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents Introduction / Melanie A. Kimball and Katherine M. Wisser -- The Córdovan Library of Caliph al-Hakam II / Don Hamerly -- "Improve the moment" : mechanics' institutes and the culture of improvement in the nineteenth century / Jordan S. Sly -- Ellis Island Library : "The Tower of Babel" at America's gate / Marija Dalbello -- Libraries, knowledge, and the common good : the cultural politics of labor republicanism in progressive-era Wheeling, West Virginia / Jonathan Cope -- The 1939 Alexandria, Virginia Public Library sit-in demonstration / Brenda Mitchell-Powell -- The library as medicine cabinet : inventing bibliotherapy in the interwar period / Mary Mahoney -- World War II and the building of the Ukrainian Library / Margaret A. (Megan) Browndorf -- Libraries of light : public library design in Britain in the long 1960s / Alistair Black.
Summary This volume will explore the notion of the library from brick-and-mortar to digital. Topics include library services and types, the library as place, library architecture, social movements, new communities, disruptive technologies, social media, and other timely topics.
General notePapers presented at the the Library History Seminar XIII, held in Boston, Massachusetts, July 31-Auguest 2, 2015. (Introduction)
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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