Overdue
Reckoning with the Public Library
==== Amanda Oliver 2022 MurrayScholls 027.473 OLI ====
Amanda Oliver website Buffalo NY -> Joshua Tree, CA
- p06 More libraries than Starbucks, 10.5 adult visits/yr.
- p07 ALA 2019 Report / Unhoused / Addicted / mental health
- p8-10 unwelcome patron comment .p13 author guilt
p14 Library Company of Philadelphia 1731 p16 colored forbidden
p17 1st American public library Boston Mason Street 1854 March 20 1870 second branch, Boston Public Library
- p18 75% of public libraries created by women's club activism
p19 Carnegie 1883-1928 $60M to fund 1700 US public libraries - in Oregon map
- p21-23 Colored Carnegie Libraries
p24 The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South Wiegand 2018