259 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.This research participates in the ongoing debate about the degree of engagement of public librarians in challenges to dominant social and cultural constructs. This research demonstrates that public librarians involved with the left-led CIO during the late 1930s and through the 1940s collaborated to create an alternative historical bloc that challenged the cultural hegemony dominant within the library profession, within local communities, and encompassing broader societies as a whole. This left-led affiliation was part of a broader cultural front, which emerged from the radical left engagement with the liberal center during the period known as the Popular Front. Within pu...
Racial segregation in southern public libraries affected millions of African Americans before the Ci...
In 1917, the leadership of the American Library Association (ALA) developed the Library War Service ...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American Library Association (ALA) became active in an...
259 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.This research participates in...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Illinois, 1916.Typescript.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 6...
textThe foundations of American progressivism were established in the 19th century and were heavily ...
As the New York Public Library entered the post-war era in the late 1940s, its operations fell under...
The segregation of U.S. public libraries, particularly in the southern United States, is a shameful ...
Rising socio-cultural and political tensions have helped increase awareness about long-standing stru...
224 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.This study of libraries, lite...
This paper traces a brief history of the development of American librarianship as a profession and e...
The aim of this dissertation is to consider the nineteenth century origins of public libraries in En...
There is evidence of unionization in the field of public librarianship as early as 1917, according ...
The project is an exploratory network analysis that examines a social movement of African-American w...
Unions are a significant element in the library work place, yet there is little discussion of their ...
Racial segregation in southern public libraries affected millions of African Americans before the Ci...
In 1917, the leadership of the American Library Association (ALA) developed the Library War Service ...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American Library Association (ALA) became active in an...
259 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.This research participates in...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Illinois, 1916.Typescript.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 6...
textThe foundations of American progressivism were established in the 19th century and were heavily ...
As the New York Public Library entered the post-war era in the late 1940s, its operations fell under...
The segregation of U.S. public libraries, particularly in the southern United States, is a shameful ...
Rising socio-cultural and political tensions have helped increase awareness about long-standing stru...
224 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.This study of libraries, lite...
This paper traces a brief history of the development of American librarianship as a profession and e...
The aim of this dissertation is to consider the nineteenth century origins of public libraries in En...
There is evidence of unionization in the field of public librarianship as early as 1917, according ...
The project is an exploratory network analysis that examines a social movement of African-American w...
Unions are a significant element in the library work place, yet there is little discussion of their ...
Racial segregation in southern public libraries affected millions of African Americans before the Ci...
In 1917, the leadership of the American Library Association (ALA) developed the Library War Service ...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American Library Association (ALA) became active in an...