Chapter 1 Immigrants being at home in libraries How the immigrants brought their home to the New York Public Library

The first two decades of the twentieth century were formative for the library services for immigrants being established in the New York Public Library. The library's literacy and citizenship activities were the grounds for the social transformation by which immigrants would become denizens of N...

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Main Author: Dalbello, Marija (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
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