"Wake Up and Read!" Book Promotion and National Library Week, 1958.
This article presents information about the organization of a book promotion during National Library Week in 1958. In the 1950s librarians and book publishers were becoming concerned with the changes being brought to reading by television, cheap paperbacks, and book clubs. Publishers, feeling more t...
| Publicado en: | Libraries & the Cultural Record Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 92 - 107 |
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University of Texas Press
2010
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