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Spreading the Gospel of Books - Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries (Hardcover)
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Spreading the Gospel of Books - Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries (Hardcover)
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In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in
Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie
Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural
populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never
used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of
her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every
parish by 1969. In Spreading the Gospel of Books, Florence M.
Jumonville chronicles the impressive, colorful history of Louisiana
parish libraries and the State Library of Louisiana. She draws upon
Culver's journals and library reports, in addition to
correspondence, scrapbooks, and State Library internal documents,
and includes photos from five decades, many never before published.
The campaign to persuade individual parishes to financially support
a library of their own was a long, uphill pull through poverty and
politics, flood and famine, discouragement and depression, war and
bureaucracy, ignorance and prejudice. Culver credited success to
the citizens, whose thirst for books and embrace of the idea of a
library inspired perseverance. In time, Culver's Louisiana plan
served as an exemplar of library development elsewhere in the
United States as well as abroad. Culver touched the lives of
generations of Louisianians who have never heard her name.
Spreading the Gospel of Books is her story, along with that of
colleagues and supporters, of making the dream of library service
come true for all.
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