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This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Marilla Waite Freeman (February 21, 1871 – October 29, 1961) was a prominent librarian known for her innovative ideas in library service. At the time of her retirement from the Cleveland Public Library in 1940, she was "one of the best known and most beloved librarians in the country."
The first free public library supported by taxation in the world was the Peterborough, New Hampshire Town Library which was founded at town meeting on April 9, 1833. [12] Many sources claim to have been the first, such as Boston's Public Library , which was the second, established in 1852.
Back in March, the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) received two books checked out by the family of music legend Morris Perelmuter King in the 1920s and were finally returned to their St ...
The Sitting Room Library books and archives began in the early 1970s as a collection of one of the Sitting Room's founders, J.J. Wilson. Her long interest in the British modernist writer, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) has resulted in a wide assortment of books by and about Woolf, her family and the Bloomsbury Group of her talented friends ...
Emily Wheelock Reed (1910 – May 19, 2000) was a librarian in Alabama who served as director of the Alabama Public Library Service Division during the civil rights movement. She stood up to segregationists seeking to remove books such as the 1958 Garth Williams children's book, The Rabbits' Wedding , from state libraries.