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.
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