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Book history --- Humanities --- Sciences humaines --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- 09 <05> --- 027.4 <73 NEW YORK> --- #ANTIL9811 --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Tijdschriften --- Openbare bibliotheken--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW YORK --- 027.4 <73 NEW YORK> Openbare bibliotheken--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW YORK --- 09 <05> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Tijdschriften --- Périodiques

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027.4 <73 NEW YORK> --- 022 --- 727.8 --- 727.8 Bibliotheekgebouwen. Gebouwen voor documentatie. Archiefgebouwen. Octrooikantoorgebouwen --- Bibliotheekgebouwen. Gebouwen voor documentatie. Archiefgebouwen. Octrooikantoorgebouwen --- 022 Bibliotheekgebouwen. Bibliotheekinrichting --- Bibliotheekgebouwen. Bibliotheekinrichting --- 027.4 <73 NEW YORK> Openbare bibliotheken--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW YORK --- Openbare bibliotheken--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW YORK --- Documentation and information --- Public buildings --- New York City --- New York City [New York]

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"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"--

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What are the books that helped shape and define the last hundred years? This was the question put to the librarians of The New York Public Library as part of the Library's 100th anniversary celebration. Which books had influenced the course of events for good or ill? Which interpreted newworlds? Or delighted millions of readers? Their answers to these questions formed ""Books of the Century,"" a highly popular exhibit during the Library's centennial celebration (1895 to 1995), highlighting an exhilarating collection of important works by some of the greatest writers of our times. Now, the

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