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2. Modern Library - Wikipedia

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   The Modern Library is an American book publishing imprint and formerly the parent company of Random House.Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, Modern Library became an independent publishing company in 1925 when Boni & Liveright sold it to Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

3. Harold Washington Library - Wikipedia

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   The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...

4. Public libraries in North America - Wikipedia

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   Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).

5. McKim, Mead & White - Wikipedia

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   Their status rose when McKim was asked to design the Boston Public Library in 1887, ensuring a new group of institutional clients following its successful completion in 1895. The firm had begun to use classical sources from Modern French, Renaissance and even Roman buildings as sources of inspiration for daring new work.

6. Harrison Bryan - Wikipedia

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   The Fisher Library building was completed in 1963, and its design demonstrated significant changes to modern library design. While Bryan had had no hand in the design of the Fisher Library he would be responsible for the design of the next library building, and be influenced by new ideas emerging from Great Britain.

7. History of libraries - Wikipedia

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   The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...