Lora Dee Garrison,Lora Dee Garrison
In her Foreword, Christine Pawley sums up the importance of Dee Garrisonâ€™s book as follows: â€œNearly a quarter-century has passed since the first edition of ,Apostles of Culture, appeared. Since no book-length study of the formation of the American public library has yet challenged Dee Garrisonâ€™s 1979 analysis, it remains the most recent---and most-cited--- interpretation of the public libraryâ€™s past, a landmark in the history, and the historiography, of libraries and librarianship...For students and researchers who want to understand the development of a field that still suffers the status of the taken-for-granted, ,Apostles of Culture, stands as a historical document. Its reissue allows its historiographical and political---as well as its historical---significance to be more fully appreciated.â€
Nonfiction,History,Library Science,Librarianship
Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920