• American Libraries is the flagship magazine of the American Library Association (ALA). American Libraries was first published in 1970 as a continuation...
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  • The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally...
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  • Libraries Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Cornell University Library Duke University Libraries The Federal Library and...
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    to digital libraries has greatly impacted the way people use physical libraries. Between 2002 and 2004, the average American academic library saw the overall...
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    literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for targeted audiences, architectural merit, patterns of usage, and the role of libraries in a nation's cultural heritage...
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  • The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for...
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  • States List of U.S. state library associations Public libraries in North America American Libraries (magazine) The American Library (art installation) This...
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    share for academic libraries and over 50% for public libraries for ExLibris, versus OCLC's 10% market share of both types of libraries in 2019). In 2022...
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    population. Public libraries are distinct from research libraries, school libraries, academic libraries in other states and other special libraries. Their mandate...
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    States, the presidential library system is a nationwide network of 16 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the...
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  • American Modern Library may refer to: Modern Library Library of America This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title American Modern...
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  • Virginia Mathews Dies". American Libraries (May/June). Becker, Joseph. (1966). “Communications Networks for Libraries.” Wilson Library Bulletin 41 (December):...
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    publications for the Library of Congress and other American libraries, and the mission in Japan aided in the creation of the National Diet Library. Evans' successor...
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    support for free libraries. In addition, money donations by private philanthropists provided the seed capital to get many libraries started. In some instances...
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  • American Library Association's Library War Service with a core collection of books and periodicals donated by American libraries to United States armed forces...
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    group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog. A bibliographic...
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    research library in the United States is the Harvard Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Comparing the size of public libraries with research libraries (such...
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    The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948. Its initial focus was affordable paperback reprints...
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  • Public Library's Brett Hall as part of FRONT's An American City program. Shonibare felt that it was appropriate to display the work in libraries because...
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  • The Scientific American Library is a book series of popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by...
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    unknown how many academic libraries there are worldwide. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries. According to the National...
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    1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them Carnegie libraries. Carnegie started erecting libraries in places with which...
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    [as well as books] for information gathering." School libraries are distinct from public libraries because they serve as "learner-oriented laboratories...
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    their libraries in new ways. The American Library Association (ALA) is one of the largest national associations which advocates for public libraries. ALA...
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  • dissatisfaction among many smaller libraries. At the same time, open-source ILS was in its early stages of testing. Some libraries began turning to such open-source...
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    Libraries have been deliberately or accidentally destroyed or badly damaged. Sometimes a library is purposely destroyed as a form of cultural cleansing...
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    "Karen Farmer" Archived December 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, American Libraries 39 (February 1978), p. 70; Negro Almanac, pp. 73,1431; Who's Who among...
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    content, digital libraries provide means for organizing, searching, and retrieving the content contained in the collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely...
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    By Volumes Held". American Library Association. Retrieved October 9, 2023. "The Nation's Largest Public Libraries". American Library Association. Archived...
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    Melvil Dewey (category Presidents of the American Library Association)
    enormously influential; though many American libraries have since adopted the classification scheme of the Library of Congress, Dewey's system remains...
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