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So Well Begun And So Much Needed: Building Up Libraries For Residents Of Iowa's State Institutions, Lisa R. Lindell
So Well Begun And So Much Needed: Building Up Libraries For Residents Of Iowa's State Institutions, Lisa R. Lindell
Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications
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"So Long As I Can Read": Farm Women's Reading Experiences In Depression-Era South Dakota, Lisa Lindell
"So Long As I Can Read": Farm Women's Reading Experiences In Depression-Era South Dakota, Lisa Lindell
Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications
During the Great Depression, with conditions grim, entertainment scarce, and educational opportunities limited, many South Dakota farm women relied on reading to fill emotional, social, and informational needs. To read to any degree, these rural women had to overcome multiple obstacles. Extensive reading (whether books, farm journals, or newspapers) was limited to those who had access to publications and could make time to read. The South Dakota Free Library Commission was valuable in circulating reading materials to the state's rural population. In the 1930s the commission collaborated with the USDA's Extension Service in a popular reading project geared toward South …
Bringing Books To A "Book-Hungry Land": Print Culture On The Dakota Prairie, Lisa Lindell
Bringing Books To A "Book-Hungry Land": Print Culture On The Dakota Prairie, Lisa Lindell
Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications
The dearth of reading material was a recurring lament in the writings and memoirs of Dakota settlers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “I was born with a desire to read, . . . and I have never gotten over it,” declared Henry Theodore Washburn, recalling his Minnesota boyhood and homesteading years in Dakota Territory, “but there was no way in those days to gratify that desire to any great extent.”1 This lack was indeed of consequence. In the pre-electronic era, print was a primary means of obtaining information, insight, and pleasure. High rates of literacy, sharp increases …