Volume 42, no. 3
Fall 2001

The Library as an Agency of Culture
Guest Editors: Thomas Augst and Wayne A. Wiegand

Introduction:
American Libraries and Agencies of Culture
Thomas Augst

The Sound of the Civic: Reading Noise at the New York Public Library
Ari Kelman

High Culture, Low Culture: The Singular Duality of the Library of Congress
Ellizabeth Jane Aikin

Home Libraries and the Institutionalization of Everyday Practices Among Antebellum New Englanders
Ronald J. Zoboray and Mary Saracino Zboray

"Reading versus the Red Bull" Cultural Construction of Democracy and the Public Library in Cold War Wisconsin
Christine Pawley

The Celebration of Health in the Celebration Libary
Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb

Exploring the American Idea at the New York Public Library
Jean L. Preer

"We Have Become Too Tender-Hearted": The Language of Gender in the Public Library, 1880-1920
Jacalyn Eddy

The Roosevelt Presidential Library: A Shift in Commemoration
Benjamin Hufbauer

Research Note
Antebellum Libraries in Richmond and New Orleans and the Search for the Practices
and Preferences of "Real" Readers
Emily B. Todd

Notes on Contributors