Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America

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297 Index E Adam Bede (Eliot), 140 Adams County (Wisconsin), 164, 168–69 Addams, Jane, 62, 135 adult(s): ALA’s focus on, 87, 150–51; as Demonstration Project’s target audience , 29, 113–17, 120–21, 176; early public libraries’ emphasis on, 130, 133; illiteracy of immigrant, 44–45, 56; library programs for, 103; research on reading habits of, 84–85, 103, 177, 274; Scandinavian, as library users, 45, 275; as taxpayers, 71. See also adult education ; men and boys; women and girls adult education, 67, 79; libraries’ role in providing, 86–92, 104, 141–42, 270, 272. See also Americanization programs The Adventurer (Waltari), 229 “Afraid of Our Shadow?” (Schenk), 105–6 African Americans: in children’s books, 186, 201–2; discrimination against, 31, 86, 96, 144, 269; library science Ph.D.’s awarded to, 86; library service for, 4, 31, 86; and literacy, 49–50, 99; southern Europeans likened to, 40; suffrage for male, 47, 56–57; terror against, 140 age, 18, 27. See also adult(s); children agricultural colleges, 63, 105, 214 agriculture: children’s books depicting, 186–87, 202; children’s work in, 42; colleges teaching, 63, 105, 214; control of rural schools by people involved in, 155; on Door Peninsula, 34–36, 41, 42, 44, 252; European immigrants involved in, 39, 62–63; incomes in, 34, 60, 105; industrialization of, 209, 213–14; and land-grant universities, 78; WFLC’s books on, 75; women’s work in, 36, 41, 42, 210, 214–16; yeoman farmers in, 47, 102 ALA. See American Library Association A.L.A. Catalog, 130–31, 133, 144–45 Alabama, 49 ALA Bulletin, 96, 101–2 Al B. (interviewee), 181, 191 Alcott, Louisa May, 192 Alger, Horatio, 157, 181 Algoma (Kewaunee County, Wisconsin), 34, 221, 227; normal school in, 154, 162–64, 166–67, 174, 218; public library in, 35, 44, 115, 121, 163, 172, 206, 223, 244, 245; support for Demonstration Project in, 240; urban-rural divisions regarding , 39; women’s club in, 209, 237 Algoma Record-Herald, 110, 123, 174, 179, 237, 239–41, 245 Alice and Jerry reading series, 170, 189 All-American (Tunis), 202 “All-White World of Children’s Books” (Larrick), 200 American Adventure series, 188 American Association of Adult Education, 90 American Girl magazine, 246 298 ฀ Index Americanization programs, 29, 40, 67; public libraries’ involvement with, 89–90, 139, 201, 267, 270–72; traveling libraries as part of, 68–69; World War I’s effect on, 139. See also adult education American Legion, 147–49 American Libraries, 271–72 American Library Association (ALA): and adult education, 90, 145; book awards from, 182; book selection guides from, 130–32, 140–41, 144– 45, 182–83; establishment of, 15; on federal funding for libraries, 92–98, 101–2; on foreign language materials in libraries, 271–72; on Internet filtering by public libraries , 264; and Library Bill of Rights, 143–46; library science research funded by, 85, 150; major focus of, 87; meetings of, 65, 77, 95–96, 146; Midwest headquarters of, 15, 66; motto of, on reading, 14; on quality of public libraries, 4; regional libraries encouraged by, 260; and Wisconsin Library Association, 64; and World War II, 97–98. See also specific journals associated with American Library Journal, 52, 127, 129, 263. See also Library Journal The American Public Library and the Diffusion of Knowledge (Learned), 87–89 animal stories, 192, 197–98, 232 Anita S. (teacher), 163, 164, 170, 218– 20, 223 Antholt, Clarence, 237 Anthony, Susan B., 62 Antigo (Wisconsin), 73 An Apple for Eve (Norris), 224 Appleton (Wisconsin), 24 Applied Christianity (Gladden), 135 Arabel Ludlow Memorial Library (Monroe, Wisconsin), 148–49 Ariane (author), 184, 185 “aristocracy of taste,” 274, 276, 277 Arkansas, 4 Armour Institute (Chicago), 82 Arnett, Anna Williams, 21–22 Arnold, Helen, 246–47, 268 Arnold, Ralph (Door County bookmobile driver), 246–47 “The Arrow and the Song” (Longfellow), 157, 165 Arsenals of a Democratic Culture (Ditzion), 99 Asch, Sholem, 226 Ashbrook, Frank G., 222 Ashland (Wisconsin), 71, 115 Asian immigrants, 59, 98, 269 At Play (Hildreth), 190 Austen, Jane, 135 Austrian immigrants, 39 “The Author vs. the Library” (Baker), 265 Babcock, George, 117 Baby Bear (Lippincott), 197 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 138 Bailey’s Harbor (Door County, Wisconsin), 35, 116, 207, 208, 222, 223, 255 Bainton, Roland, 222 Baker, Nicholson, 265 Baldwin, Faith, 226 Bambi, 76 Bannerman, Helen, 184, 185, 200–201 Barbara B., 249 Barbas, Catherine, 230 “The Barefoot Boy” (Whittier), 165 Barton, John R., 103, 104, 113 basal readers...