Collecting Nature
Subtitle: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library (Development of Western Resources)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780700611232
Subjects: Environmentalist thought & ideology; Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations; Libraries & information centres; Museums & Museology; Public Policy - General; Environmental Studies; Conservation Of Natural Resources (General); United States - 20th Century; Nature; Nature/Ecology; USA; Environmentalism; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; United States; 20th century; Conservation Library; Denver Public Library.; Environmental Policy; History
Description: "Denver's Conservation Library was established in 1960 as a repository for environmental and conservation documents. In chronicling its history, Andrew Kirk also traces the cultural history of American environmentalism as viewed through the lens of this unique institution.

He tells how this library created by an older generation of technophobic men evolved into a cutting-edge laboratory for alternative technology research run by young women, mirroring tumultuous changes in American culture and social movements over the past four decades."--BOOK JACKET.