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Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy (1997) Kranich, Nancy. “Libraries and Democracy Revisited.” Library Quarterly 90, no. 2 (April 2020): 121–53. Latham, Joyce M. 2011 "Memorial Day to Memorial Library: The South Chicago Branch Library as Cultural Terrain, 1937-1947." Libraries & the Cultural Record 46, no. 3: 321-342.
It also served as a model and inspiration for many other libraries that began to spring up throughout the colonies. Other types of libraries included commercial circulating libraries, athenaeums, and school-district libraries. The start of the development of the American library as we know it today, however, began in full force between 1850 and ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Beaufort County School District on Thursday announced the next 10 titles to be reviewed by committees set up to make decisions on 97 books removed from school libraries in October.
American Libraries has acknowledged [5] that Melvil Dewey, for whom the classification is named, has a legacy tainted [6] by sexual harassment and racism. American Libraries Live free webinars, established in 2012, give the library community a chance to learn about and discuss issues members deal with daily. Each program lasts 60 minutes.