If libraries didn't already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity made available, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. CONSTRUCTION OF PATTEN FREE LIBRARY, circa 1889. The photograph was taken by ...

Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today’s librarians who ...

Any entrepreneur will tell you that getting a business off the ground is neither easy nor inexpensive. But if you know where to look, there is a wealth of free resources out there, and many of them ...

You've probably seen those free book boxes around town where you can take a book or leave one, or maybe a CD by BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Many of them are associated with a nonprofit ...

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