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  2. Traveling library - Wikipedia

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    A variant of the traveling library is the bookmobile or mobile library, which delivers books along definite routes radiating from some central library. [7] The great advantages of the traveling library are economy, mobility, and adaptability. The collection is limited to books definitely chosen for some purpose. The obsolete and useless are ...

  3. Library of America - Wikipedia

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    The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.

  4. Digital Public Library of America - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. 12 Free Library Perks You Didn't Know About - AOL

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    The library isn’t just a place to get free books — it’s also a de facto community center. Most libraries have a variety of free events that they plan for cardholders.

  6. Appletons' travel guides - Wikipedia

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    Appletons' travel guide books were published by D. Appleton & Company of New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The firm's series of guides to railway travel in the United States began in the 1840s. Soon after it issued additional series of handbooks for tourists in the United States, Europe, Canada and Latin America.

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  8. Bookmobile - Wikipedia

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    With the rise of motorized transport in America, a pioneering librarian in 1920 named Sarah Byrd Askew began driving her specially outfitted Model T to provide library books to rural areas in New Jersey. [21] The automobile remained rare, however, and in Minneapolis, the Hennepin County Public Library operated a horse-drawn book wagon starting ...

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