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- catalog contributor b6572312.
- catalog created "1947.".
- catalog date "1947".
- catalog date "1947.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1947.".
- catalog description "1. The Anglo-American library scene -- 2. Cultural foundations -- The intellecutals -- Wayland -- Everett -- Ticknor -- Early documents -- Cultural and economic competition -- Social lag -- Free libraries and free schools -- Uplift by prevention -- Early philanthropy -- Role of the newspaper and periodical press -- 3. From the "social" library to the free public library -- Legislation -- Patterns of transition -- Coexistence of "social" and public forms : Boston -- Smooth transition -- New Bedford -- Worcester -- Long period of uncertainty -- Lowell -- Lawrence -- Amesbury -- Buffalo -- Resistance -- Salem -- New Haven -- Northampton -- Providence -- The weak economic base of the subscription library -- 4. Democratic strivings -- General political and social backgrounds -- Republicanism and the religious heritage -- Self-culture -- Forward march of science and technology -- Cultural nationalism -- The climate of democracy -- Specific conditions and ideas -- Religious influences -- ".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 194-215.".
- catalog description "The informed voter -- The urban-industrial complex -- Reactions of the library profession -- 5. The library's function as an educator of the people -- The printed page -- Agencies of adult education -- The Lyceum -- Chautaugua -- University extension -- Women's clubs and women's rights -- The library and the public school -- The superstructure of a free system of education -- Common interests -- The public school from the library point of view -- The public library from the educator's point of view -- 6. The humanitarian idea -- The underprivileged -- Brightening the lives of the poor -- Temptations of the city -- Uplift in New York -- The evils to be fought -- Pernicious literature -- Delinquency and crime -- Drink -- The librarian as a humanitarian -- 7. The workingman and the public library -- The wage-earner's education -- A changing economy -- Factory libraries -- Free reading for workingmen -- Technical education -- The librarian serves commerce and industry -- ".
- catalog description "The workers' point of view -- Labor and its organizations -- The eight-hour day -- The farmer -- 8. The stimulus of philanthropy -- Democratic, religious, and humanitarian motivations -- The librarian looks at philanthropy -- The donors : who were they? -- Big philanthropy -- Astor in New York -- The Lenox library -- Consolidation -- Carnegie in Pittsburgh -- Carnegie's social ideas -- Philanthropy in Pittsburgh -- Admirers and critics -- 10. Bookmen, librarians, and free books -- Publishers and booksellers -- Librarians -- 11. Service to meet readers' needs -- Buildings -- Branch librarians -- Added service for readers -- Hours of opening -- Evening hours -- Sunday opening -- Book selection -- Fiction -- Censorship and exclusion -- Technical books -- Newspapers.".
- catalog extent "x p., 2 ℓ., 263 p., 1 ℓ.".
- catalog hasFormat "Arsenals of a democratic culture.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Arsenals of a democratic culture.".
- catalog issued "1947".
- catalog issued "1947.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, American Library Association,".
- catalog relation "Arsenals of a democratic culture.".
- catalog spatial "Middle Atlantic States.".
- catalog spatial "New England.".
- catalog subject "027.474".
- catalog subject "Libraries Middle Atlantic States.".
- catalog subject "Libraries New England.".
- catalog subject "Z731 .D57".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Anglo-American library scene -- 2. Cultural foundations -- The intellecutals -- Wayland -- Everett -- Ticknor -- Early documents -- Cultural and economic competition -- Social lag -- Free libraries and free schools -- Uplift by prevention -- Early philanthropy -- Role of the newspaper and periodical press -- 3. From the "social" library to the free public library -- Legislation -- Patterns of transition -- Coexistence of "social" and public forms : Boston -- Smooth transition -- New Bedford -- Worcester -- Long period of uncertainty -- Lowell -- Lawrence -- Amesbury -- Buffalo -- Resistance -- Salem -- New Haven -- Northampton -- Providence -- The weak economic base of the subscription library -- 4. Democratic strivings -- General political and social backgrounds -- Republicanism and the religious heritage -- Self-culture -- Forward march of science and technology -- Cultural nationalism -- The climate of democracy -- Specific conditions and ideas -- Religious influences -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The informed voter -- The urban-industrial complex -- Reactions of the library profession -- 5. The library's function as an educator of the people -- The printed page -- Agencies of adult education -- The Lyceum -- Chautaugua -- University extension -- Women's clubs and women's rights -- The library and the public school -- The superstructure of a free system of education -- Common interests -- The public school from the library point of view -- The public library from the educator's point of view -- 6. The humanitarian idea -- The underprivileged -- Brightening the lives of the poor -- Temptations of the city -- Uplift in New York -- The evils to be fought -- Pernicious literature -- Delinquency and crime -- Drink -- The librarian as a humanitarian -- 7. The workingman and the public library -- The wage-earner's education -- A changing economy -- Factory libraries -- Free reading for workingmen -- Technical education -- The librarian serves commerce and industry -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The workers' point of view -- Labor and its organizations -- The eight-hour day -- The farmer -- 8. The stimulus of philanthropy -- Democratic, religious, and humanitarian motivations -- The librarian looks at philanthropy -- The donors : who were they? -- Big philanthropy -- Astor in New York -- The Lenox library -- Consolidation -- Carnegie in Pittsburgh -- Carnegie's social ideas -- Philanthropy in Pittsburgh -- Admirers and critics -- 10. Bookmen, librarians, and free books -- Publishers and booksellers -- Librarians -- 11. Service to meet readers' needs -- Buildings -- Branch librarians -- Added service for readers -- Hours of opening -- Evening hours -- Sunday opening -- Book selection -- Fiction -- Censorship and exclusion -- Technical books -- Newspapers.".
- catalog title "Arsenals of a democratic culture; a social history of the American public library movement in New England and the middle states from 1850 to 1900, by Sidney Ditzion; foreword by Merle Curti ...".
- catalog type "text".