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Library Excavations #5: A Handbook of Library Ideas

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400 S State St Harold Washington Library Center
60605 Chicago
United States
US
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Zine, Library Excavations #5: A Handbook of Library Ideas
Date: 
February 2017
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#5
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Zine is part of a project that "highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries." This Issue is a reprint of a self-published1977 booklet of ideas for creative librarians to use.
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English
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The Chicago Public Library: Origins and Backgrounds

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Chicago, IL
United States
US
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Book, Spencer, Gwladys
Date: 
1943, 1972 (reprint)
Edition: 
First (Gregg Press)
Abstract: 
The common assumption, at the time this book was written, was that the Chicago Public Library system had been founded in a distinct moment after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, with help from the British. Author Gwladys Spencer argues that by 1871, the founding of CPL was already underway. The book presents a history of CPL up to 1872, and sets it in the greater context of the library movement in Illinois and around the country. (Adapted from introduction.)
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English
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0839818890