Reading places: literacy, democracy, and the public library in cold war america
Auteur :
Pawley, Christine
Éditeur :
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN :
9781558498228
Date de publication :
28 mai 2010
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,7 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
500 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s. Using interviews and library records, it reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to implement an official literacy policy.