id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-12830	Crowley, John V.	Faculty Status for Academic Librarians: A History and Policy Statements (Book Review)	1976	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1434	71	58	College and Research Libraries 176 I College & Research Libraries • March 1976 search collections and scholarly work of large public libraries as they may relate to his major theme. Davies argues that public libraries, founded by nineteenth-century upper- and middle-class philanthropists convinced of the perfectibility of humankind, eager to uplift the masses, and persuaded that read- ing was intrinsically virtuous and refining, were, like other educational and cultural institutions, started by similar people and for similar re~sons (lyceums, athenaeums, literary and scientific societies, mechanics' institutes), paternalistic and elitist.	cache/crl-12830.pdf	txt/crl-12830.txt