الناشر | Oxford University Press |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13 | 9780190660291 |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 10 | 0190660295 |
الكاتب | F William Summers Professor Emeritus School of Library and Information Studies Wayne A Wiegand |
تنسيق الكتاب | Paperback |
اللغة | English |
وصف الكتاب | Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Instead, this book uses the voices of generations of public library users to argue that Americans have love |
عن المؤلف | Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University and former director of the Florida Book Awards. Often referred to as the "Dean of American library historians," he is the author of more than one hundred articles and numerous award-winning books, including An Active Instrument for Propaganda: American Public Libraries During World War I and Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. In 2008-9, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow to support his research on the American Public Library. He now lives in the California Bay area. Read more |
تاريخ النشر | 2017-06-01 |
عدد الصفحات | 344 pages |
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library