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Beta Phi Mu Monograph Ser.: Carnegie Denied : Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants, 1898-1925 by Robert Martin (1993, Hardcover)

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-100313286094

ISBN-139780313286094

eBay Product ID (ePID)134593

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Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCarnegie Denied : Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants, 1898-1925

SubjectUnited States / 20th Century, Library & Information Science / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Business, Corporate & Business History

Publication Year1993

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History

AuthorRobert Martin

SeriesBeta Phi Mu Monograph Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight16.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN92-025741

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume NumberNo. 3

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal027.473

Table Of ContentIntroduction by Robert Sidney Martin The Founding of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by Rosemary R. DuMont Aborted Library Projects in Pennsylvania: Community Reactions to Library Offers in Carnegie's "Native State" by Pamela S. Richards The Carnegie Question and the Public Library Movement in Progressive Era New York by Frederick J. Stielow and James Corsaro Women's Club Culture and the Failure of Library Development in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio by Daniel F. Ring No Palace for the People: Carnegie Rejections in Indiana by John Mark Tucker Mistaken Pride, Unseasonable Rush: Rejected Carnegie Grants in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska by Robert Sidney Martin, Anne P. Diffendal, Loren Nelson Horton, and Randy Roberts Poverty of Mind and Lack of Municipal Spirit: Rejection of Carnegie Public Library Building Grants by Seven Southern Communities by Donald G. Davis, Jr. and Ronald C. Stone, Jr. Summary and Conclusions by Robert Sidney Martin Index

SynopsisAndrew Carnegie was the foremost supporter of public library construction to the point that Carnegie Library became a cliche, synonymous with the public library, especially in small towns. Yet some communities that asked for Carnegie's funds to build a library later took public action to decline the funds. Because he was viewed as a robber baron, it has been assumed that these refusals were motivated by a desire not to take tainted money. This work documents that this was rarely the case. Indeed, there were many reasons for opposition to the Carnegie library grants. In some cases, local authorities remained unconvinced of the need for a public library. Some communities were under legal or financial restrictions that prevented them from taxing themselves in support of the library. In some, there was simply opposition to increasing the tax burden; in others the opposition focused on the perception that Carnegie was building memorials to himself. Experienced historians were commissioned to conduct thorough studies of regional clusters. The authors made the broadest possible use of primary sources, including public archives, manuscript collections, local newspaper accounts, and the records of the Carnegie Corporation in the Library of Congress. Of particular relevance were the files of the Carnegie Library Correspondence, documenting most of the history of first, Andrew Carnegie's--and later, the Carnegie Corporation's--program to fund library construction programs.

LC Classification NumberZ731