Good Books in a Country Home: The Public Library as Cultural Force in Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920 (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science)

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Although urban historians point to the creation of the American public library as one response to the chaos experienced by big cities on the end of the 19th century, this take a look at shows that the library developed within the rural community of Hagerstown, Maryland, resembled its urban opposite numbers. Business elites, concerned in regards to the image of town, created a library as the primary cultural institution in Hagerstown. This book traces the societal changes in Hagerstown from 1878 to 1920, examines the motivations of the businessmen for creating the library, and explores the changes in attitude of the librarian who spent her career there. By the usage of the enjoy of Hagerstown as a case take a look at, the writer makes a valuable contribution to the history of rural librarianship and the place of the library in American cultural history.

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