The World of Tomorrow: Geographic Coverages of the Main Street Public Library, ALA Catalogs, and H. W. Wilson Company's Standard Catalog for Public Libraries
Bishop, Bradley Wade
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Title
The World of Tomorrow: Geographic Coverages of the Main Street Public Library, ALA Catalogs, and H. W. Wilson Company's Standard Catalog for Public Libraries
Author(s)
Bishop, Bradley Wade
Issue Date
2012
Keyword(s)
Main Street Public Library Collections
Abstract
This article details what one high school senior from each of the
five Main Street public library communities (Sauk Centre, Minnesota;
Osage, Iowa; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; Morris, Illinois; and
Lexington, Michigan) would find in collections in 1945 related to
particular geographies. The global milieu of the New York World’s
Fair 1939–40 frames the historical events that stimulated each of the
student’s topics. To determine what each public library’s collection
held about the world, the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) section
of geography and travel (classification number 910) was used.
Cross-referencing each library’s accession records for books added
prior to 1945 against books recommended for all public libraries
in the geography and travel (910) sections of standard professional
guides like the ALA catalogs, the H. W. Wilson Company’s Standard
Catalog for Public Libraries, and other ALA publications like the Guide
to Reference Books shows what students using these five libraries would
have found. The recommended titles from the professional guides
and those accessioned in the libraries indicate a distinct bias toward
books concerning North America and Western Europe.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0018
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