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Public Libraries Online The online counterpart to Public Libraries magazine Public Library Quarterly . The Public Library Quarterly is "addressed to leaders-directors, managers, staff, trustees, and friends-who believe that change is imperative if public libraries are to fulfill their service missions in the twenty-first century."
A steering committee led the planning phase of the DPLA initiative from inception through its launch in 2013. Members of the project's Steering Committee included Harvard University's Robert Darnton, Maura Marx, and John Palfrey; Paul Courant of University of Michigan, Carla Hayden then of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library and subsequently the Librarian of Congress, Charles J. Henry of the ...
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.
A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.
The national network of Little Free Libraries — tiny cupboards perched outside homes holding free books — is partnering with Banned Books Week, PEN America and the American Library Association ...
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] Most public libraries offer classes, literacy programs and storytimes for ...
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Carnegie libraries created an increased need for larger numbers of librarians to manage them, thus career library workers became an established permanent workforce. [ 3 ] During this period, Melvil Dewey became a primary force in the professionalization of librarians and library education in the United States.