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The Goodnow Library is an historic public library building located at 21 Concord Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It is named for Sudbury-native John Goodnow II, who died in 1851 and left to the town of Sudbury a 3-acre (1.2 ha) site for a library, $2,500 to build it, and $20,000 to buy books and to maintain it. [ 2 ]
The Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) is the Massachusetts, United States professional library association that "advocates for libraries, librarians, and library staff, defends intellectual freedom, and provides a forum for leadership, communication, professional development, and networking to keep libraries vital."
Massachusetts Board of Free Public Library Commissioners. Free public library buildings of Massachusetts : a roll of honor, 1918. Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919
The board, Lambert said, is obligated to follow the statutory duties identified by both the Tennessee State Library and Archives' Board of Trustees and Secretary of State Tre Hargett's publication ...
Frank Johnson Goodnow (January 18, 1859 – November 15, 1939) was an American educator and legal scholar. He was the first president of the American Political Science Association. [ 4 ] He was an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society .
The president of the New York Public Library is the chief executive officer of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and exercises general supervision over its affairs. The president is elected yearly by the New York Public Library Board of Trustees. John Bigelow was the first president from the library's founding in 1895 to his death in 1911.
Edward Samuel Goodnow (1874–1939) Frank Johnson Goodnow (1859–1939), American educator and legal scholar; Isaac Goodnow (1814–1894), abolitionist and co-founder of Kansas State University; Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow (1924–2014), cognitive and developmental psychologist; Minnie Goodnow (1871–1952), American nurse
In 1808, the library began as a collection of about 100 books by Samuel Morse. [1] He was a portrait artist and had an interest in developing a circulating library. [2] By 1852, the collection, entitled the Citizen's Library, amassed 425 books. [3] The Morse Institute Library was instituted in 1862 by Mary Ann Morse, Samuel Morse's ...