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Libraries Today is a web site for people interested in the history of Canadian libraries and librarians, especially in the province of Ontario. As well, there is a concern with contemporary library political, administrative, economic, and social issu ...
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~lbruce/
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- Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey, the youngest of five children, was born on December 10, 1851 to a poor family living in a small town in northern New York. As a child, he felt drawn to mathmatics and enjoyed playing around with classification systems at ...
http://www.booktalking.net/books/dewey/
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- South Carolina Library History
The School of Library and Information Science SLIS at the University of South Carolina is a part of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies and one of the nations youngest and most distinguished schools of library and information ...
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/histories/
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- Library History Database
The Library History Database now contains information on over 27,000 libraries in the British Isles, and is based on over 1,200 published works. It is regularly updated, but additions and corrections are usually added to the main files for England, W ...
http://www.r-alston.co.uk/contents.htm
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- Fortunate Son
1968 was a turbulent year in American history. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were murdered. Riots occurred throughout the country and the Democratic Party convention took place in a sea of blood in Chicago. George Wallace was campaigning as a ...
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~jhurd/rain.html
| | - Santa Cruz County Local History
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is a CityCounty library system providing library services to Santa Cruz County, California. Its ten branch libraries and bookmobile serve all of Santa Cruz County with the exception of the City of Watsonville, which ma ...
http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/libsch/libsch.shtml
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- Infography About Library Instruction
Sources recommended by a librarian whose research specialty is the history of library instruction. ...
http://www.infography.com/content/442526523229.html
| | - History of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie donated Main Library buildingwhich also included Museum of Natural History, Museum of Art, and Music Hall; 1907 addition included Dinosaur Hall and a Lecture Hall; Scaife Gallery added to Museum of Art in the 1960s and eight neighborh ...
http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/
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- Illinois State Library
In 1800, the U.S. Congress established a library in the Capitol in Washington to serve the references needs of federal legislators. In 1839, the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, met in Vandalia and created a law a ...
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/il990133.html
| | - Brief History of Library Instruction In USA
German library literature records various examples of library instruction from the 17th to 19th Centuries. Ewert 1986 gave a summary of this literature and detailed where the library instruction occurred, who generally was conducting it, and what was ...
http://www.libraryinstruction.com/lihistory.html
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Carnegie Libraries History
