{"product_id":"reading-publics-9780823276813","title":"Reading Publics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A deeply researched, well-written, and solid contribution to library history literature that will interest not only members of the library profession but also scholars and students of intellectual, cultural, social, urban, and print culture history whose own research has been heavily influenced by the rich collections Glynn discusses.\" -- -Wayne Wiegand Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, Florida State University. \"For anyone studying the history of public libraries this will be an essential work of reference, but it is also full of interest for anyone wishing to know more of the social and cultural history of New York generally\". -- -Ian McGowan Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues \"A wonderful book. Thoroughly enjoyable.\" -- -Christine Pawley University of Wisconsin-Madison \" ... 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911     Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early     Republican New York     Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum     New York     Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical     Society Library     Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical     Corporation     Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's     Subscription Libraries     Chapter 6: \"Men of Leisure and Men of Letters\": New York's Public Research Libraries     Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century     New York     Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library     in the Gilded Age     Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the     Progressive Era     Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics     Works Cited     Notes","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528017355095,"sku":"9780823276813","price":27.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823276813.jpg?v=1731870085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-publics-9780823276813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}