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"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...

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Published in:Libraries & the Cultural Record Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 92 - 107
Main Author: Preer, Jean
Format: Article
Published: University of Texas Press 2010
Subjects:
Librarians
Publishing
Books
Television & reading
Center for the Book
Library of Congress
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