Reading for moral progress
Subtitle: 19th century institutions promoting social change
By: by Donald G. Davis, Jr., David M. Hovde, John Mark Tucker ; with an introduction by Alan Gribben.
Contributors: Hovde, David M.; Tucker, John Mark.; Conference on Faith and History
Series: Occasional papers / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science,; no. 207; Occasional papers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science) ;; no. 207.
Publisher: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Oberlin College. Library -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Libraries and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Libraries -- Aims and objectives -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Sunday school libraries -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Sunday school libraries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Academic libraries -- Collection development -- Ohio -- Oberlin -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Libraries -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Papers from the Conference on Faith and History, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, October 7-8, 1994."
Table of contents: title: Bread upon the waters : the printed word in Sunday schools in 19th century England and the United States / Donald G. Davis, Jr.; title: The library is a valuable hygienic applicance / David M. Hovde; title: Wide awakening : political and theological impulses for reading and libraries at Oberlin College, 1883-1908 / John Mark Tucker.