Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America

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Index AAUP. See American Association of University Professors abortion, 15, 187, 194 access to information. See information access accessions. See collections; homogenization and homogeneity; records and record-keeping “The Acquisition of Alternative Materials ” (Danky), 218 Action Girl Newsletter (zine), 250 Adams, Thomas R., 239–40 adult education, 116–18, 121–23, 130– 31, 133 advocacy, 15, 112, 125, 221–22; “inside activism,” 220, 227; meta-radicalism as, 220; “outside activism,” 220; silence and, 220, 221, 231. See also American Library Association; librarians: advocacy of The Advocate (LGBTQI magazine). See The Los Angeles Advocate African American people and issues. See race Aikin, Elizabeth Jane. See Aikin, Jane Aikin, Jane, 78–93 Akeroyd, Richard (zine librarian), 217 ALA. See American Library Association Alexander, Jeffrey, 27–28 Alfie’s Home (Cohen), 185 “alternative,” defined, 217–18, 232n6, 239, 255n8 alternative press and publications: 15, 217–20, 223, 224, 225, 226–28, 233n15, 235n50, 241, 250–51, 255n8; “authenticity” and, 238–39, 241, 242–45, 258–59n29; extremes on left and right and, 23, 221, 230 Alternatives in Print (meta-radical publication), 218, 223 American Association for Adult Education , 117. See also adult education American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 170–71 American Book Publishers Council, reaction to obscenity suit, 169 American Family Association, 187–89, 191. See also Christian Right; “pro-family” movement American Federation of Labor (AFL), 114. See also labor, organized American Indians. See Native Americans Americanization, 10–11, 104, 105, 106, 111–12, 113, 119, 155, 162; attitudes toward, 114, 126n13 American Legion, 14, 121, 136, 139, 140–41 American Library Association (ALA), 4, 10, 13, 24, 117, 131, 138, 140, 162; Code of Ethics, 13, 205, 207; 265 American Library Association (continued) Committee on Work with the Foreign Born, 112, 115; defining of library profession, 24, 32; Family Friendly Libraries (FFL) and, 185–99; intellectual freedom and, 168–69, 170–71; Office for Intellectual Freedom, 200; war work, 158–61. See also Intellectual Freedom Committee (ALA); librarians; librarianship; Library Bill of Rights; Library’s Bill of Rights The American Public Library and the Problem of Purpose (Williams), 32 “The American Way” (forum series), 117. See also adult education Anderson, Benedict, 25–26, 225 appropriation, cultural, 26, 30, 125, 244 archiving, 169, 228, 246, 250, 251–53 Arnold, Lillian B., 153–54 Athenæum. See Boston Athenæum Augst, Thomas, 65, 203 authority, cultural, 6, 9, 24, 73–74, 169, 177, 187, 221. See also cultural production; culture authorship, 221, 225, 239, 247–48; Barthes on, 257n27; Foucault on, 257nn27–28, 257–58n29 Avon (publisher), 172 Babel Proclamation, Iowa, 160, 167n70. See also Americanization; foreignlanguage materials; immigrants Ball State University. See What Middletown Read database Bamboo Girl (counter-zine), 244 banned works. See censorship Bantam Books, 171–72 Baraka, Amiri. See Jones, LeRoi Barker, Nicholas, 239–40 Barthes, Roland, 257n27 Bay Area Reference Center, 222 Benedict, Russell (zine librarian), 217, 230 Benedict, Ruth, 136 Benes, Eduard (second president of Czechoslovakia), 122 Bennett, Julia D. (ALA), 180–81 Berkeley Barb (alternative newspaper), 221 Berlet, Chip (zine librarian), 230 Berman, Sanford, 219, 222, 224, 251 Berninghausen, David, 170, 171, 178 Berry, John, 190 Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (McKenzie), 254n6 binaries: criticism of, 16, 221, 238–40, 249; fiction and, 27 bisexual people and issues. See LGBTQI people and issues Bixler, Paul, 178–79, 181 Black Panther (newspaper), 221 black people and issues. See race Bohemia/Bohemians (and Czechoslovakia /Czechs). See immigrants “book chain,” 239. See also markets and marketplaces “book circuit,” 239. See also markets and marketplaces Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life (Long), 26 book culture. See print and book culture “Book Culture from Below” (2010 SHARP conference), 237, 239, 254n1 “book cycle,” 239. See also markets and marketplaces Booklegger (zine) and Booklegger Press, 223 Booklegger’s Guide to the Passionate Perils of Publishing (West and Wheat), 223 The Borough is My Library: A [Greater] Metropolitan Library Workers Zine (Sellie), 229 borrowers, library. See users, library Boston Athenæum, 64–77; as social/subscription library, 74–75. See also peer-to-peer book reviewing 266 Index Boston Brahmins, 13. See also elites Boston Public Library (BPL), 16–17n3, 65 Bourdieu, Pierre, 213n5, 239–40; cultural production, 203, 211–12; large-scale and restricted production in libraries, 203, 211–12, 213n5; “literary field” and, 239. See also West Bend (WI) Community Memorial Library Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), 129–30. See also Vonnegut, Kurt...