Local Library, Global Passport: The Evolution of a Carnegie Library

by J. Patrick Boyer

Book Overview

A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership.

Several thousand Carnegie libraries were built a century ago when Andrew Carnegie, who had risen from poverty to become "the richest man in the world" vowed to donate all his money before he died and set about giving millions of people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978498224
• ISBN13: 9780978498221
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Blue Butterfly Books
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.7"