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Overview"The first comprehensive history of American public school librarianship. ""Can I get a library pass?"" Over the past 120 years, millions of American K–12 public school students have asked that question. Still, we know little about the history of public school libraries, which over the decades were pulled together and managed by hundreds of thousands of school librarians. In American Public School Librarianship, Wayne A. Wiegand recounts the unseen history of both school libraries and their librarians. Why, Wiegand asks, did school librarianship turn out the way it did? And what can its history tell us about limitations and opportunities in the coming decades of the twenty-first century? Addressing issues of race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation (among others) as they affected American public school librarianship throughout its history, Wiegand explores how libraries were transformed by the Great Depression, the civil rights era, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, and more recent legislation like No Child Left Behind, Common Core, and the Every Student Succeeds Act. Wiegand touches on censorship, the impact of school segregation on school libraries, disparities in funding that fall along lines of race and class, the development of school librarianship as a profession, the history of organizations like the American Association for School Librarians, and how emerging technologies affected school librarianship. Wiegand clarifies the historical role of the school librarian as an opponent of censorship and defender of intellectual freedom. He also analyzes the politics of a female-dominated school library profession, identifies and evaluates the profession's major players and their battles (often against patriarchy), and challenges the priorities of librarianship's current agendas, particularly regarding the role of ""reading"" in the everyday lives of children and young adults. Filling a huge void in the history of education, American Public School Librarianship provides essential background information to members of the nation's school library and educational communities who are charged with supervising and managing America's 80,000 public school libraries." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wayne A. Wiegand (F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, Florida State University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781421441504ISBN 10: 1421441500 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 07 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction. A Profession with No Memory Chapter 1. Inheriting Pre-Twentieth-Century Traditions Chapter 2. ""To Prove By Her Work"": Establishing the Profession of School, 1900-1930 Chapter 3. Weathering the Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1950 Chapter 4. Organizing the American Association of School Librarians, 1930-1952 Chapter 5. Consolidating Gains, 1952-1963 Chapter 6. ""The Golden Era of School Library Development,"" 1964-1969 Chapter 7. Battles for Professional Jurisdiction, 1969-1981 Chapter 8. ""Information Literacy"": Old Wine in New Bottles, 1981-2000 Chapter 9. A New Century: Adapting to Shifting Educational Environments Chapter 10. Hindsight: Factors Influencing the Contours of School Librarianship Epilogue Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index"ReviewsAmerican Public School Librarianship: A History provides us with a richly sourced account of the development of a key pedagogic site in schools and of many of the personal, institutional, and political reasons why they do-and do not do-certain things. This certainly makes it a valuable contribution.In a time when honest, thoughtful, and creative cultural resources are being limited and removed from educational sites, the multiple roles that school libraries play in these conflicts become even more important. American Public School Librarianship: A History helps us understand why. American Public School Librarianship: A History provides us with a richly sourced account of the development of a key pedagogic site in schools and of many of the personal, institutional, and political reasons why they do-and do not do-certain things. This certainly makes it a valuable contribution.In a time when honest, thoughtful, and creative cultural resources are being limited and removed from educational sites, the multiple roles that school libraries play in these conflicts become even more important. American Public School Librarianship: A History helps us understand why. -Educational Policy American Public School Librarianship: A History provides us with a richly sourced account of the development of a key pedagogic site in schools and of many of the personal, institutional, and political reasons why they do-and do not do-certain things. This certainly makes it a valuable contribution.In a time when honest, thoughtful, and creative cultural resources are being limited and removed from educational sites, the multiple roles that school libraries play in these conflicts become even more important. American Public School Librarianship: A History helps us understand why. * Educational Policy * Author InformationWayne A. Wiegand is the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University. He is the author of Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey and Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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