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Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920 »
Authors: Lora Dee Garrison, Christine Pawley, Wayne A. Wiegand
ISBN-13: 9780299181147, ISBN-10: 0299181146
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Lora Dee Garrison
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Pt. 1 | The Missionary Phase | |
| Ch. 1 | The Genteel Setting | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Profile of the Library Elite | 16 |
| Ch. 3 | The Social Ideals of Early Library Leaders | 36 |
| Pt. 2 | Moral Passage: The Fiction Problem | |
| Ch. 4 | Immoral Fiction in the Late Victorian Library | 67 |
| Ch. 5 | The Shift in Attitudes Toward Popular Fiction | 88 |
| Pt. 3 | Melvil Dewey: Mission and Mechanics | |
| Ch. 6 | Formation of a Savior | 105 |
| Ch. 7 | Columbia College, 1883-1888 | 126 |
| Ch. 8 | Albany, 1888-1905 | 136 |
| Ch. 9 | Final Diversions, 1906-1931 | 159 |
| Ch. 10 | From Missionary to Professional | 166 |
| Pt. 4 | The Tender Technicians | |
| Ch. 11 | Feminization: Symbol and Reality | 173 |
| Ch. 12 | The Effect on Professionalization | 186 |
| Ch. 13 | Librarianship, Charity Work, and the Settlement Movement | 196 |
| Ch. 14 | Maid Militant: The Progressive Years and World War I | 206 |
| Ch. 15 | The Decline of the Genteel Library Hostess | 226 |
| App | Public Library Leadership | 242 |
| Notes and Sources | 246 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 301 | |
| Index | 312 |
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