Civic Participation and Libraries
Recommended Reading
By
Nancy Kranich, Civic Librarian
Rutgers University School of Communication and Information and Rutgers University
Libraries
Revised 7/14
Libraries and Civic Engagement Items Highlighted in Yellow
Ackerman, Bruce & James Fishkin (2004). Deliberation Day. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press.
Amore, Shirley. (2012). “Interview with Shirley Amore: City Librarian for the Denver
Public Library,” National Civic Review: 101 (4) Winter 2012): 48-50.
Baldwin, Michael. (October 15, 2002). “Can Libraries Save Democracy?” Library
Journal, 127, # 17 (October 15, 2002).
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA250022?display=searchResults&stt=001&text=
can+libraries+save+democracy
Barber, Benjamin. (2003). Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy in an Age of
Interdependence. New York: Norton.
Barber, Benjamin. (1998). A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Strong. New
York: Hill and Wang.
Barber, Benjamin. (1984). Strong Democracy. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
Becker, Christine. (2012). “Engaged Libraries Leading the Way,” National Civic Review.
101 (4) Winter 2012: 21-23.
Bellah, Robert, et. al. (1991). The Good Citizen. New York: Knopf
Bellah, Robert, et. al. (1985, updated 1996). Habits of the Heart: Individualism and
Commitment in American Life, Updated Edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
Benton, Susan. (2012). “Investing in Civic Engagement and Public Libraries: A
Roundtable Discussion with Paula Ellis, Deborah Jacobs, and Julia Stasch.” National
Civic Review. 101 (4) Winter 2012: 5-10. http://www.ncl.org/pdfs/101.4/Roundtable.pdf
Beyond Books: What’s Possible When Librarians and Journalists Meet? News, Literacy
and Democracy for America’s Libraries. (2011). Cambridge, MA: MIT Center for Civic
Media and Journalism that Matters, April 6-7, 2011. http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/
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Block, Peter. (2008). Community: The Structure of Belonging. San Francisco: BerrettKoehler Publishers.
Boyte, Harry & Kari, Nancy. (1996). Building America: The Democratic Promise of
Public Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Boyte, Harry. (2009). Civic Agency and the Cult of the Expert. Dayton, OH: Kettering
Foundation. www.kettering.org/media_room/publications/civic-agency
Boyte, Harry. (1989). Commonwealth: A Return to Citizen Politics. New York: The Free
Press.
Boyte, Harry. (2004). Everyday Politics: The Power of Public Work. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania.
Boyte, Harry & Evans, Sarah. (1986). Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change
in America. New York: Harper and Row.
Boyte, Harry. (2004). Going Public: Academics and Public Life. Dayton, OH: Kettering
Foundation.
http://www.kettering.org/Foundation_Publications/Publication2/PublicChoice-HBoyte.pdf
Briggs, Xavier de Souza. (2008). Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in
Communities Across the Globe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bringle, Robert G., Richard Garnes, and Edward A. Malloy. (Ed.s) (1999). Colleges and
Universities and Citizens. Needham Heights, MA: Adlyn & Bacon.
Brown, Juanita, David Isaacs, Peter Senge (May 2005). World Cafe: Shaping Our
Futures through Conversations That Matter. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Bryan, Frank M. (2004). Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It
Works. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Burns, N., K. Schlozmann, & Sydney Verba. (2001). Private Roots of Public Action.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Byrne, Alex. (2004). Libraries and Democracy--Management Implications. Library
Management, 25(1/2), 11-16.
Carr, David. (2011). Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums.
Santa Barbara, CA: Librarires Unlimited/ABC-CLIO.
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Caywood, Carolyn. (2012). “Engage Your Community: Hosting Forums Using the
National Issues Forum Institute Model,” Programming Librarian,
http://www.programminglibrarian.org/library/planning/engage-your-community.html
Center for Engaged Democracy, Core Competencies Committee. (2013). Core
Competencies in Civic Engagement. North Andover, MA: Merrimack College School of
Education. http://www.merrimack.edu/live/files/354-core-competencies-reportfinal-high-respdf
Chicago Public Library and YOUMedia Staff, (2012). “YOUmedia Chicago: Connecting
Youth Through Public Libraries,” National Civic Review. Winter 2012: 33-35.
Christenson, Karen & David Levinson, eds. (2003). Encyclopedia of Community: From
the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Clark, Susan and Woden Teachout. (2012). Slow Democracy: Rediscovering
Community, Bringing Decisions Making Back Home. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea
Green Publishing.
Coccioli, Anthony. (2013). “Public Libraries and PBS Partnering to Enhance Civic
Engagement: A Study of a Nationwide Initiative,” Public Library Quarterly, 32 (1):1–20.
Colby, Anne, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, and Jason Stephens. (2003).
Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic
Responsibility. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Colby, Anne, Elizabeth Beaumont, Thomas Ehrlich, and Josh Corngold. (2007).
Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political
Engagement San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Collaborative Communications Group. (May 2003) New Relationships with Public
Schools: Organizations That Build Community by Connecting with Public Schools.
Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
http://www.publicengagement.com/practices/publications/newrelationshipssummary.htm
Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge. (2013). All Together Now:
Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement. Medford, MA: Tufts University
CIRCLE. http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CIRCLE-youthvotingindividualPages.pdf
Creighton,James L. (2005). The Public Participation Handbook.: Making Better
Decisions Through Citizen Involvement. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Crenson, Matthew A. & Benjamin Ginsberg. (2002). Downsizing Democracy: How
America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press.
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CSV Consulting. (2006). Community Engagement in Public Libraries: A Report on
Current Practice and Future Developments. London: Museums, Libraries and Archives
Council.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/http://www.mla.gov.uk/what/publications/~/media/Files/pdf/2
006/community_engagement_report_9654.ashx
CSV Consulting. (2006). Community Engagement in Public Libraries: A Toolkit for
Public Library Staff. London: Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/http://www.mla.gov.uk/what/publications/~/media/Files/pdf/2
006/community_engagement_toolkit_9659.ashx
de Tocqueville, Alexis. (1990). Democracy in America. New York: Vintage Books.
Ditzion, Sidney. (1939). “Social Reform, Education, and the Library, 1850-1900.” The
Library Quarterly, 9(2), 156-184.
Ditzion, Sidney. (1947). Arsenals of a Democratic Culture: A Social History of the
American Public Library Movement in New England and the Middle States from 1850 to
1900. Chicago: American Library Association.
Durrance, Joan. (1984). Armed for Action: Library Response to Citizen Information Needs.
New York: Neal Schuman.
Durrance, Joan and Karen E. Fisher with Marian Bouch Hinton. (2005). How Libraries and
Librarians Help: A Guide to Identifying User-Centered Outcomes. Chicago: American Library
Association.
Durrance, Joan and Karen E. Fisher. (Spring 2003). “Determining How Libraries and
Librarians Help,” Library Trends 2003 51 (4): 541-570.
Durrance, Joan. Pettigrew, Karen., M. Jourdan, &,K. Scheuerer. (2001). “Libraries and Civil
Society,” in Libraries and Democracy: the Cornerstones of Liberty. Chicago, IL: American
Library Association: 49-59.
Durrance, Joan C. (Summer 2001). "The Vital Role of Librarians in Creating Information
Communities: Strategies for Success." Library Administration & Management, 15 (3): 162167.
Dworkin, Ronald. (2006). Is Democracy Possible Here? Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 2006.
Dzur, Albert W. (2008). Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the
Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice. University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State U. Press.
Eberly, Don and Ryan Streeter. (2002). The Soul of Civil Society. Lanham, MD:
Lexington Books.
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Ehrlich, Thomas (ed.). (2000). Civic Responsibility and Higher Education. Phoenix, AZ:
Oryx Press.
Elkin, Stephen L. and Karol Edward Soltan, eds., (1999). Citizen Competence and
Democratic Institutions, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U. Press.
Fishkin, James. (1995). The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy. New
Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.
Fishkin, James. (1997). Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic
Reform. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.
Gagnon, Paul. (Sept. 2003). Educating Democracy: State Standards to Ensure a Civic
Core. Washington, DC: Albert Shanker Institute.
http://www.shankerinstitute.org/Downloads/gagnon/contents.html
Galston, Colbe, Elizabeth Kelsen Huber, Katherine Johnson, and Amy Long. (June 6,
2012). “Community Reference: Making Libraries Indispensable in a New Way.”
American Libraries, http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/06132012/community-referencemaking-libraries-indispensable-new-way
Gastil, John and Peter Levine. (2005). The Deliberative Democracy Handbook. San
Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Gastil, John. 1993). Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision Making and
Communication. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers.
The Gerontological Society of America. (2011). Civic Engagement in an Older America.
Washington, DC: Gerontological Society of America.
https://www.geron.org/Resources/Online%20Store/civic-engagement
Gibson, Cynthia and Peter Levine. (Feb 2003). The Civic Mission of Schools. New
York: Carnegie Corporation and CIRCLE.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/public_policy_circle_mission_schools.pdf
Goulding, Anne. (2009). Engaging with community engagement: public libraries and
citizen involvement. New Library World, 110 (1/2): 37-51,
http://pr.shisu.edu.cn/picture/article/19/52/a6/2c3581364ef592d94f3a0bd4c18e/38bfd953-3dcd-4004-89e2ed6d266702d0.pdf
Gross, Valery. (July 2011). “Choose Civility: Public Libraries Take Center Stage. Public
Libraries. 50 (4): 32-38.
Gutsche, Betha. (2012). “The Engaged and Embedded Library: Moving from talk to
action,” Web Junction News, August
31, http://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/Engaged_Embedded_Library.html?ut
m_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Crossroads&utm_campaign=Crossroads
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Harvard School of Public Health–MetLife Foundation, Initiative on Retirement and Civic
Engagement. (2004). Reinventing Aging: Babyboomers and Civic Engagement,
Cambridge, MA: Center for Health Communication.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/reinventingaging/Report.pdf
Harwood, Richard. (2005). Hope Unraveled: The Peoples Retreat and Our Way Back.
Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
Harwood, Richard. (2007). Make Hope Real: How We Can Accelerate Change for the
Public Good. Bethesda, MD: Harwood Institute for Public Innovation.
Harwood Institute. (2003). Making It Real: How to Make Civic Engagement a Public
Sensibility. Bethesda, MD: The Harwood Institute.
Harwood, Richard. (Fall 1995). The Public Realm: Where America Must Address Its
Concerns. Bethesda, MD: The Harwood Institute.
http://www.theharwoodinstitute.org/speeches/publicrealm.shtml
Harwood, Richard & Aaron Leavy. (2011). Why We’re Here: The Powerful Impact of
Public Broadcasters When They Turn Outward. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
Harwood Institute. (2012). The Work of Hope: How Individuals & Organizations Can
Authentically Do Good. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
http://workofhope.theharwoodinstitute.org/
Hayuk, Ronald & Kevin Mattson. eds. (2002). Democracy’s Moment: Reforming the
American Political System for the 21st Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Heifetz, Ronald A. (1994). Leadership Without Easy Answers. Cambridge, MA: Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press.
Henton, Douglas, John Melville, & Kim Walesh. (2004). Civic Revolutionaries; Igniting
the Passion for Change in America's Communities. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Herzig, Maggie and Laura Chasin. (2006). Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts
and Bolts Guide from the Public Conversations Project. Watertown, MA: Public
Conversations Project.
Hildreth, Susan. (2012). “Inspiring Libraries as Community Anchors,” National Civic
Review. Winter 2012: 44-47.
Holman, Peggy, Tom Devane and Steven Cady. (2007). The Change Handbook: The
Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems. 2d ed.,
Revised and Expanded. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
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Holman, Peggy. (2010). Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval Ito Opportunity. San
Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Hynes, Mary Hughes and Diane Kresh. “PLACE Making: The Arlington Way,” National
Civic Review. Winter 2012: 18-20.
Institute for Local Government. (2010). A Local Official’s Guide to Public Engagement
in Budgeting. Sacramento, CA: Institute for Local Government. http://www.cailg.org/budgetingguide
Institute for Local Government, Collaborative Governance Initiative. (2007). Planning
Public Forums: Questions to Guide Local Officials. Sacramento, CA: Institute for Local
Government. http://www.cacities.org/resource_files/25304.ILG_PlanPubForums.pdf
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). (2009). Museums, Libraries, and
21st Century Skills. Washington, DC: IMLS, http://imls21stcenturyskills.org/
International City Management Association (ICMA). (2011). Maximizing the Potential of
Your Public Library: A Report on the Way Public Libraries Are Addressing Community
Priorities. Washington, DC: ICMA.
http://icma.org/en/icma/knowledge_network/documents/kn/Document/302161/Maximize_the_Potential_of
_Your_Public_Library
Isaacs, William. (1999) Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together: A Pioneering
Approach to Communicating in Business and in Life. New York: Doubleday.
Jacobs, Lawrence, Ray Lomax Cook and Michael Delli Carpini. (2009). Talking
Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago.
Johansson, Veronica. (2004). “Public Libraries as Democratic Intermediaries: Some
Examples from Sweden.”New Library World, 105(1), 47-59.
Keeter, Scott, Cliff Zukin, Molly Andolina, & Krista Jenkins. (September 19, 2002).
The Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers U. Eagleton Institute of Politics with CIRCLE and funded by the Pew
Charitable Trust.
http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/public_policy_youth_civic_political_health.pdf
Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. (2009).
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. Washington, DC:
Aspen Institute. http://report.knightcomm.org/.
Knutson, Ellen. (2008). Libraries, Community and Change in Post-Soviet Russia: The
Case of the Bryansk Regional Public Library System. Unpublished 3314963, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States -- Illinois.
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Kranich, Nancy. (2010). “Academic Libraries as Hubs for Deliberative Democracy,”
Journal of Public Deliberation special issue on Higher Education and Deliberative
Democracy, vol. 6, #1, Article 4, http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol6/iss1/art4
Kranich, Nancy. (2010). “Civic Engagement,” Podcast, Public Library Talk, December
31, http://publiclibrarytalk.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-02T13%3A33%3A0005%3A00&max-results=7
Kranich, Nancy, Michele Reid and Taylor Willingham. (July/August, 2004). “Civic
Engagement and Academic Libraries,” College and Research Libraries News, 65, #4:
380-383, 388, 393. Downloadable text available at:
http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
Kranich, Nancy. (March/April 2006). “The Civic Mission of School Libraries,”
Knowledge Quest, vol. 34, #4,: 10-17,
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqarchives/volume34/KQ_34n4_
Kranich.pdf
Kranich, Nancy. (Winter 2005). “Civic Partnerships: The Role of Libraries in Promoting
Civic Engagement,” in “Creative Collaborations: Libraries Within Their Institutions and
Beyond,” Special issue of Resource Sharing and Information Networks 17, # 1 & 2.
Downloadable text available at:
http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
Kranich, Nancy, Lynette Kvasny and Jorge Schement. (2009). “Communities, Learning,
and Democracy in the Digital Age,” in John Carroll, ed., Learning in Communities
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Centered Information Technology, London:
Springer: 41-44, available online at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-84800-331-6.
Kranich, Nancy and Carlton Sears. (2012). “The Conversation Continues @ your
library,” with Carlton Sears, American Libraries, March/April, vol. 43 (3/4): 22.
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/my-mind/conversation-continues-your-library;
Kranich, Nancy. (March 2008). “Deliberative Dialogue: A Different Kind of Talk—
Another Way to Engage Communities,” FOLUSA News Update, 31 (2): 5, 11.
Kranich, Nancy. (2012). “Deliberative Dialogue-Changing the Discourse in the Country,
the Committee and the Classroom,” In Debbie Abilock, School Librarians as Leaders in
Professional Development, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO: 299-302,
http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/showfed.php?pid=rutgers-lib:37219
Kranich, Nancy. (2011). “Interview on Libraries and Democracy,” American Association
of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), American Democracy Project, Blog,
January 4, http://adpaascu.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/interview-with-nancy-kranich-on-libraries-anddemocracy/
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Kranich, Nancy. (2012). “Libraries and Civic Engagement,” Library and Book Trade
Almanac. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/showfed.php?pid=rutgers-lib:37218
Kranich, Nancy. (Ed.) (2001). Libraries and Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty.
Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Kranich, Nancy. (2013). “Libraries and Strong Democracy: Moving from an
Informed to a Participatory Citizenry,” Indiana Libraries, Special Issue on
Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, 32 #1: 13-20.
http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/IndianaLibraries/article/view/4228/pdf
Kranich, Nancy. (November 15, 2001). “Libraries Create Social Capital,” Library
Journal 126, #19 (November 15, 2001): 40-41.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA180511.html
Kranich, Nancy, Anne Heanue and Taylor Willingham. (January 2003) “Libraries—
Public Forums for Today’s Critical Issues,” American Libraries, 34, #1: 68-70.
Downloadable text available at:
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Kranich, Nancy. (2004). “Libraries: The Information Commons of Civil Society,” in
Douglas Schuler, Shaping the Network Society, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Preprint
available on the Digital Library of the Commons: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
Kranich, Nancy, Megan Lotts, and Gene Springs. (2014). “The Promise of Academic
Libraries Transforming Campus Communities, College and Research Libraries News. 75
#4 (April 2014): 182-186. http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/4/182.full
Kranich, Nancy. (Fall 2010). “Promoting Adult Learning Through Civil Discourse in the
Public Library,” In Marilyn Parrish and Edward Taylor, Adult Education in Cultural
Institutions: Libraries, Museums, Parks, and Zoo, in series, New Directions for Adult and
Continuing Education, Number 127: 15-24.
http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore30126200001.Manuscript.000064282
Kranich, Nancy. (October 2004). “Promoting Civic Engagement through the Campus
Library,” Friends of Libraries USA (FOLUSA) Newsletter 27, # 5: 9, 11. Downloadable
text available at: http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=3856&catID=2871
Kranich, Nancy. (August 2000). Smart Voting Starts at Your Library. Insert in American
Libraries, August 2000. http://www.ala.org/Source/smartvoting@yourlibrary.pdf
Kranich, Nancy. (March/April 2003). “Staking a Claim in the Information Commons,”
Knowledge Quest, vol. 31, #4: 22-25. Preprint available on the Digital Library of the
Commons: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
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Kretzmann, John P. and John L. McNight. (1993). Building Communities from the Inside
Out. Chicago, IL: ACTA Publications.
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Lankes, R. David. (2008). “The Ethics of Participatory Librarianship.” Journal of Library
Administration, 47(3/4), 233-241.
Lankes, R. David. (2012). Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today’s
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London, Scott. (2010). Doing Democracy: How a Network of Grassroots Organizations
is Strengthening Community, Building Capacity, and Shaping a New Kind of Civic
Education. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
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Libraries,” National Civic Review. Winter 2012: 4.
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Citizens, Mobilizing Communities. St. Paul, MN: Wilder Center for Communities.
Lukensmeyer, Carolyn J. and Lars Hasselblad Torres. (2006). Public Deliberation: A
Manager’s Guide to Public Engagement. Washington, DC: IBM Center for the Business
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National Civic Review, Winter 2012: 3-14.
Macedo, Stephen, et. al. (2005). Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine
Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It. Washington, DC: Brookings
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Mathews, David. (2014). The Ecology of Democracy: Finding Ways to Have a Stronger
Hand in Shaping Our Future. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
David Mathews. (2006). Engaging Citizens: Meeting the Challenges of Community
Life. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation. http://kettering.org/wpcontent/uploads/EngagingCitizens.pdf
Mathews, David. (2002). For Communities to Work. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
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Administration Review, 44, special issue: 120-125.
Mathews, David. (1999). Politics for People, 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: University of
Illinois Press.
Mathews, David. & McAfee, Noelle. (2001). Making Choices Together: The Power of
Public Deliberation. Dayton, OH: Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
Mathews, David. (2003). Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?
Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation.
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Mattson, Kevin. (2000). “The Librarian as Secular Minister to Democracy: The Life and
Ideas of John Cotton Dana.” Libraries & Culture, 35(4), 514-534.
McCabe, Ronald. (2001). Civic Librarianship: Renewing the Social Mission of the Public
Library. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
McConnell, Brian. (1999). Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
McCook, Kathleen. (2000). A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building.
Chicago: American Library Association.
McCoy, Martha L. & Patrick L. Scully. (2002). Deliberative Dialogue to Expand Civic
Engagement: What Kind of Talk Does Democracy Need? National Civic Review, 91(2),
117-135. http://www.ncl.org/publications/ncr/91-2/ncr91-2_article.pdf
McKibben, Bill. (2007). Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable
Future. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
McKnight, John, & Peter Block. (2010). The Abundant Community: Awakening the
Power of Families and Neighborhoods. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Meek, Gerry. (2012). “Promoting Civic Literacy and Community Building: Civic
Engagement Matters at the Calgary Public Library,” National Civic Review. Winter
2012: 41-43.
Milner, Henry. (2002). Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Missouri Deliberates. (2003). Discovering Common Ground--Deliberation and Your
Community: How to Convene and Moderate Local Public Forums Using Deliberative
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