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English
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Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many Black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller buildings and collections. While scholars have examined and continue to uncover the history of school segregation, there has been much less research published on the segregation...
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Series
Contributions in librarianship and information science volume no. 86
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other reference books, and literary genres including poetry, plays, and novels. In the early twenty-first century, the American Library Association reports that there...
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Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This report provides an overview of the historical exclusion and disenfranchisement of Blacks and African Americans from libraries and educational institutions in the United States and explores the ways in which the legacy of this exclusion manifests today"--
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This resource brings together leading library history scholars and new voices to investigate lesser known avenues and historicize library services-finding nontraditional stories and erasing borders between library service subcategories in the general library historiography"--
18) Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the...
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Series
Beta Phi Mu monograph volume no. 1
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English