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Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, libraries in America also function as de facto community centres. And yet, across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or curtailing their hours of operation. Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed America documenting hundreds of these endangered institutions. The Public Library presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs- from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs are essays, letters and poetry by some of America's most celebrated writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey.

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Library & information sciences Library & information services

• Full title: Public Library, the
• Author: Robert Dawson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781616892173
• ISBN: 161689217X
• ID: 02394961
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Weight: 928 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 204 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2014

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