| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Sääty-yhteiskunnan kirjastosta kansalaisyhteiskunnan kirjastoksi: Yleisten kirjastojemme murroskausi 1890-luvulta 1920-luvulle (From a library of a class society to a library of a citizenry: Finnish public libraries become American, 1890–1920). By Pirjo Vatanen. (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002. 216 pp. Paper, €27.00, ISBN 951-746-358-8.) In Finnish.

Few institutions have had as universal and as leveling an effect on the Finnish populace as Finland's public libraries. Beginning in the 1870s, librarians initiated a series of changes that would eventually transform their sporadic subscription libraries, reading circles, and workers' literacy halls into a unified, multipurpose public library system, offering reading materials of similar content and quality to patrons young and old, rich and poor, urban and rural. In her study Sääty-yhteiskunnan kirjastosta kansalaisyhteiskunnan kirjastoksi (From a library of a class society to a library of a citizenry), Pirjo Vatanen traces this gradual process and the quintessentially American influences behind it.

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