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  2. Public libraries in North America - Wikipedia

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    American Libraries before 1876 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000) 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.

  3. Digital Public Library of America - Wikipedia

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    The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two-and-a-half years of development.

  4. List of largest libraries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts

  5. List of national and state libraries - Wikipedia

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    A "♦" indicates a national library of a province or state, or constituent country or dependent state [neutrality is disputed]. It is listed under the sovereign state which governs that entity. Sovereign states are listed even when they have no national library or when the existence and name of a national library could not yet be ascertained.

  6. Public library - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. American librarianship and human rights - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Open access - Wikipedia

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    For example, the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), [156] is a comprehensive approach to full open access journal publishing, involving a number of Latin American countries. Bioline International , a non-profit organization dedicated to helping publishers in developing countries is a collaboration of people in the UK, Canada, and ...

  9. Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the ...

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    The library also provides digital access to an unfathomable wealth of information, far greater than a single library could maintain in a physical space. As specialists in information organization and retrieval, it supports a network of libraries that continuously refines a portfolio of digital and physical subscriptions tailored to the use of ...

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