MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01999cam a2200361 i 4500
001 2014050133
003 DLC
005 20151002082429.0
008 150127s2015 maua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014050133
020 $a9781625341402 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781625341419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aZ1003.3.I6$bF45 2015
082 00 $a028/.909112650909034$223
100 1 $aFelsenstein, Frank.
245 10 $aWhat Middletown read :$bprint culture in an American small city /$cFrank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly.
264 1 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c[2015]
300 $axiii, 304 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aStudies in print culture and the history of the book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.
505 0 $a"Now we are a city" : portrait of a boomtown -- "A magnificent array of books" : the origins and development of the Muncie Public Library -- Cosmopolitan trends : print culture and the public library in 1890s Muncie -- Borrowing patterns : the Muncie Public Library and its patrons -- "Bread sweet as honey" : reading, education, and the public library -- Reading and reform : the role of fiction in the civic imagination of Muncie's activist women -- Schoolboys and social butterflies : profiling Middletown readers -- Epilogue. Looking backward, looking forward -- Appendix. The What Middletown read database.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zIndiana$zMuncie$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zIndiana$zMuncie$xHistory$y20th century.
610 20 $aMuncie Public Library$xHistory$y19th century.
610 20 $aMuncie Public Library$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLibraries and community$zIndiana$zMuncie$xHistory.
700 1 $aConnolly, James J.,$d1962-