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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).
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Public libraries in Cardiff, Wales; Libraries in Dallas, Texas; New York City: List of Brooklyn Public Library branches; List of New York Public Library branches; List of Queens Public Library branches; List of Hennepin County Library branches, Minnesota; List of public libraries in Los Angeles County, California; List of libraries in Seattle ...
A public library is a library which is open to the general public, in contrast to types of library which are only open to specific groups of people, such as academic libraries. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
University and college academic libraries in the United States (8 C, 286 P) Pages in category "Libraries in the United States" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Library consortia in the United States by state or territory (36 C) Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places by state (50 C) Lists of Carnegie libraries in the United States by state or territory (52 P)
As of 2018, the largest public library in the United States and second-largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the de facto national library of the United States, [2] which holds over 167 million items, including over 39 million books and other printed materials, 3.6 million recordings, 14.8 million ...
America's Star Libraries and Index of Public Library Service, an alternative system developed by Keith Curry Lance and Ray Lyons, was first introduced in the June 2008 issue of Library Journal. [11] This method rates on four equally weighted per-capita statistics with comparison groups based on total operating expenditures: library visits ...