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Abstract: A study of the development of the public library in Wisconsin during the nineteenth century. The creation of the institution is seen as a process which involved the transplanting of the New England social library to Wisconsin, its gradual atrophication and replacement by a public institution modeled after the social library. The decline and replacement occurred in the context of the social and technological developments in Wisconsin during this period-- developments to which the public library promoters tended to react adversely, and for which they saw the public library as a possible corrective. The social library in Wisconsin began and remained an institution dominated by New England migrants; its replacement by the public library was effected by New Englanders. The social library was promoted by laymen, as was the public library the creation of the latter institution, however, resulted in the establishment of a professional cadre who at the end of the century began to assume direction of public library development, largely through the means of a state agency-- the Free library Commission-- and with the assistance of the Wisconsin Library Association, a putative professional organization. Both organizations came into existence during the last decade of the century, at the behest of the newly established librarians and their allies in the Legislature. |
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