Published February 22, 2009
Vol. 42, No. 3: Fall 2001

Articles

AmsJ Editors
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Front Matter
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AmsJ Editors
4, 210
Notes on Contributors
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Thomas Augst
5-22
Introduction: American Libraries and Agencies of Culture
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Ari Kelman
23-41
The Sound of the Civic: Reading Noise at the New York Public Library
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Elizabeth Jane Aikin
43-61
High Culture, Low Culture: The Singular Duality of the Library of Congress
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Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray
63-86
Home Libraries and the Institutionalization of Everyday Practices Among Antebellum New Englanders
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Christine Pawley
87-103
Reading versus the Red Bull: Cultural Constructions of Democracy and the Public Library in Cold War Wisconsin
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Juris Dilevko, Lisa Gottlieb
105-133
The Celebration of Health in the Celebration Library
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Jean L. Porter
135-154
Exploring the American Idea at the New York Public Library
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Jacalyn Eddy
155-172
"We Have Become Too Tender-Hearted": The Language of Gender in the Public Library, 1880-1920
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Benjamin Hufbauer
173-193
The Roosevelt Presidential Library: A Shift in Commemoration
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Research Note

Emily B. Todd
195-209
Antebellum Libraries in Richmond and New Orleans and the Search for the Practices and Preferences of "Real" Readers
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