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"Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining

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Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Read more...
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