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The focus on libraries not as cold, impersonal institutions engaged in promulgating top-down policies but rather as spaces populated by people with diverse backgrounds, needs, and values is what makes this volume valuable. Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester This reader is especially gratified to see so many of the essays in this valuable collection infused with the insights of contemporary critical social theory. Library & Information History Recommended for librarians and print culture enthusiasts; the content ranges widely enough to pique varied interests. Library Journal This reader is especially gratified to see so many of the essays in this valuable collection infused with the insights of contemporary critical social theory. -- Library & Information History Recommended for librarians and print culture enthusiasts; the content ranges widely enough to pique varied interests. -- Library Journal

The focus on libraries not as cold, impersonal institutions engaged in promulgating top-down policies but rather as spaces populated by people with diverse backgrounds, needs, and values is what makes this volume valuable. --Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester

The focus on libraries not as cold, impersonal institutions engaged in promulgating top-down policies but rather as spaces populated by people with diverse backgrounds, needs, and values is what makes this volume valuable. Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester This reader is especially gratified to see so many of the essays in this valuable collection infused with the insights of contemporary critical social theory. Library & Information History Recommended for librarians and print culture enthusiasts; the content ranges widely enough to pique varied interests. Library Journal This reader is especially gratified to see so many of the essays in this valuable collection infused with the insights of contemporary critical social theory. -- Library & Information History Recommended for librarians and print culture enthusiasts; the content ranges widely enough to pique varied interests. -- Library Journal

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Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins<.strong> have both served as professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Pawley's publications include Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America. Robbins is author of The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library.

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