Part of our lives : a people's history of the American public library

"Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Instead, this book uses the voices of generations of public library users to argue that Americans have loved their libraries for the useful information they mak...

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Main Author: Wiegand, Wayne A.
Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
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