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The way patrons use library buildings is also changing. Libraries offered 3.75 million public programs in 2010, the equivalent of one free program per day in every public library in America. [5] Mirroring an increase in overall library usage, attendance at library programs increased by 22 percent between 2004 and 2008. [67]
A school library (or a school media center) is a library within a school where students, and sometimes their parents and staff have access to loan a variety of resources, often literary or digital. The goal of a school library or media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to ...
The lasting effects of the two White House Conferences on Library and Information Services were assessed by Virginia Mathews for the Center for the Book in 2004. [15] The records of the state-level White House pre-conferences are held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives. [16]
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
Mickelson, Peter. "American Society and the Public Library in the Thought of Andrew Carnegie." Journal of Library History (1975) 10#2 pp 117–138. Rose, Ernestine. The public library in American life (Columbia University Press, 1954) Shera, Jesse Hauk. Foundations of the public library;: The origins of the public library movement in New ...
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
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In fall 2021, the American Library Association (ALA) received 330 reports of book challenges, a rate which it called "unprecedented", but also an undercount because the ALA estimates 82–97% of challenges are not reported. [6] [7] Only 1% of the challenges were initiated by students, and most were by parents or library patrons. [8]