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Honorary Membership conferred by the American Library Association is the Association's highest award. [1] " Honorary membership may be conferred on a living citizen of any country whose contribution to librarianship or a closely related field is so outstanding that it is of lasting importance to the advancement of the whole field of library service.
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.
Below is a continuation of the North America section of the List of library associations. Included are state associations, school library associations, and special library associations that are specific to an American state.
The Membership Libraries Group is an organization of non-profit membership libraries in the U.S., formed in 1991. Membership libraries are rare in the United States today. Although numerous in the 18th and 19th centuries, they declined after the American Civil War, when the free public library as we know it today develop
The American Library Association celebrated its centennial in 1976. In commemoration the association published Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America. [32] [33]The American Library Association Archives, established at the time of the centennial, created an online exhibit which includes a history of the centennial.
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