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Dissertation Information for Miriam Ruth Braverman

NAME:
- Miriam Ruth Braverman

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1974)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected

Title: PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE YOUNG ADULT: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SERVICE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY

Abstract: Following the decade of the 1960s, when youth forged new cultural and political paths, public librarians working with young people became concerned with examining the role and direction of the service.

This study examines the development of the service in three major public libraries, The New York Public Library, Cleaveland Public LIbrary, and Enoch Pratt Free LIbrary in Balitimore, tracing the underlying philosophy and its relation to young people and society through the library services offered young people. The period covered was from 1920 to 1966.

The important factors affecting the development of the work were:

1. The disjunction between social values and social reality, refelect in the basic humnistic orientation of the young people's work within a materalist-oriented industrial society,

2. The inconsistency between the humanism expressed by the librarians in the work, and the lack of ability to relate to young people not in school, as well as the large numberss of miniority young people who were part of the massive in migartion to the cities during the 1950s.

3. The generally hostile attitudes of adults toward young people.

4. The amorphous character of the young adult, and the difficulty in defining this population for the purposes of administrative organization.

5. The failure to integrate the variety of non-profit forms of communication with print forms.

The shape of the work varied in the three systems, nfluenced largely by the personality and talent of the coordinators guiding the work, as well as the administrative structure of their respective library system. However, the records of the young adult despartments and the extensive interviews by the investigator, made up a mosaic revealing two basic currents in all three libraries: the cultural and the social. the preoccupation of the librarians with life as refelected in literature characterized the cultural periods. The concern o fthe librarian with the conditions of life of young people in their societal environment marked the social periods.

Social orientation in the work became prominent during the depression years of the 1930's. The orientation assumed tdifferent forms in the post-World War II period, with particularly interesting experimentation in the Cleveland Public LIbrary. However, during the 1950s all three libraries, by and large, became "book oriented" The 1960s, with their new urban populations and the development of youth as an influential social group, foundthe libraries essentially unprepared for work in the new milieu. To set a new course, an examination is necessary of the relationship between the basic philosophy and the programs for youth in the libraries and the factors in society affecting youth.

MPACT Scores for Miriam Ruth Braverman

A = 0
C = 1
A+C = 1
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-05-09 10:35:35

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Students under Miriam Ruth Braverman

ADVISEES:
- None

COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Ann Michelle Knight Randall - Columbia University (1976)