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And with the help of original documents, including letters of petition by schoolteachers, bankers, and civic leaders from across the United States, he provides

Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important f

For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing,

A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingso

An examination of Richardson's small public libraries that places them in the design, cultural, political, and economic contexts of their times.