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100 1  Glynn, Tom,|d1962-|eauthor. 
245 10 Reading publics :|bNew York City's public libraries, 1754-
       1911 /|cTom Glynn. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bEmpire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham 
       University Press,|c2015. 
300    1 online resource (459 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
347    data file|2rda 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8  Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: 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. 
520    "This lively, nuanced history of New York City's early 
       public libraries traces their evolution within the 
       political, social, and cultural worlds that supported 
       them. On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened 
       its "marble palace for book lovers" on Fifth Avenue and 
       42nd Street. This was the city's first public library in 
       the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection 
       free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, 
       however, New York's reading publics had access to a range 
       of "public libraries" as the term was understood by 
       contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library 
       in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries 
       simply meant a shared collection of books that was 
       available to the general public and promoted the public 
       good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society 
       Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of 
       forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, 
       while others required a membership or an annual 
       subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the 
       American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, 
       like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive 
       collections. What all the public libraries of this period 
       had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction 
       that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, 
       orderly republic-that good reading promoted the public 
       good. Tom Glynn's vivid, deeply researched history of New 
       York City's public libraries over the course of more than 
       a century and a half illuminates how the public and 
       private functions of reading changed over time and how 
       shared collections of books could serve both public and 
       private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and 
       reading helped construct social identities and how print 
       functioned within and across groups, including but not 
       limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an 
       accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican 
       and liberal values, shifting understandings of "public" 
       and "private," and the debate over fiction influenced the 
       development and character of New York City's public 
       libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 
       Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social
       and cultural history of New York City that firmly places 
       the city's early public libraries within the history of 
       reading and print culture in the United States"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aGlynn, Tom.|tReading publics : New York 
       City's public libraries, 1754-1911.|dNew York : Empire 
       State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 
       2015|z9780823262649|w(DLC)   18375046 
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