Reading publics [electronic resource] : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / Tom Glynn.

"A 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...

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Main Author:	Glynn, Tom, 1962- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Public libraries > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century. Public libraries > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Subscription libraries > New York (State) > New York > 18th century. Subscription libraries > New York (State) > New York > 19th century. Libraries and society > New York (State) > New York > History. Books and reading > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century. Books and reading > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2015 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Reading Publics: New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

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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
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