Thank You, AP US History
Apologies for the silence. I am in the final few days of the semester and am attempting to write my final papers. You really don't want to know how it's going. *headdesk*
I do, however, feel the need to share my frustration and amusement at realizing the gaps in the Official History of Libraries that we were given and the amount of information that I still remember from my AP US History class. A course I took about 15 years ago.
Because it's really weird to be recapping the History of American Libraries in just a page or two, and trying to bring in some social/political history to fit in with the main theme of the paper (which is about services to youth and evolving educational ideals as they relate to public libraries), and realizing that not only do most of the significant events in American Library History just happen to coincide (yeah right) with various democratic/social/political movements (Jacksonian Democracy, the Progressive movement), but absolutely nothing I'm reading makes this explicit.
Aside from the typical "colonists read a lot! and thought (some) education was important (for non slaves)!" - of course
And again, I point out that this stuff is all being dredged up from the dark depths of my memory of a class I took 15 years ago. What exactly did the people writing the Official History of American Libraries learn in school? Or am I just that much of a socialist/political junkie that I see "democracy!" in everything?
I do, however, feel the need to share my frustration and amusement at realizing the gaps in the Official History of Libraries that we were given and the amount of information that I still remember from my AP US History class. A course I took about 15 years ago.
Because it's really weird to be recapping the History of American Libraries in just a page or two, and trying to bring in some social/political history to fit in with the main theme of the paper (which is about services to youth and evolving educational ideals as they relate to public libraries), and realizing that not only do most of the significant events in American Library History just happen to coincide (yeah right) with various democratic/social/political movements (Jacksonian Democracy, the Progressive movement), but absolutely nothing I'm reading makes this explicit.
Aside from the typical "colonists read a lot! and thought (some) education was important (for non slaves)!" - of course
And again, I point out that this stuff is all being dredged up from the dark depths of my memory of a class I took 15 years ago. What exactly did the people writing the Official History of American Libraries learn in school? Or am I just that much of a socialist/political junkie that I see "democracy!" in everything?