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Arsenals of a Democratic Culture: A Social History of the American Public Library Movement in New England and the Middle Atlantic States from 1850 to 1900 (Chicago: American Library Association 1947) Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876–1920. Free Press (1979) ISBN 0-02-693850-2; Gisolfi, Peter A ...
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.
MLA Style Manual, formerly titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States–based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2015 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...
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.
Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876-1920. (Free Press (1979)) ISBN 0-02-693850-2; Jones, Theodore. Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy (1997) Martin, Lowell A. Enrichment: A History of the Public Library in the United States in the Twentieth Century (2003) Martin, Lowell Arthur, et al. Library ...
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.
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[56] [57] The library in Campfield, Manchester was the first library to operate a "free" lending library without subscription in 1852. [58] Norwich lays claim to being the first municipality to adopt the Public Libraries Act 1850 (which allowed any municipal borough with a population of 100,000 or more to introduce a halfpenny rate to establish ...