What Is the Public Library?

Old Graduate Notes Re-Thought and Linked

Education vs. Entertainment?

• "The Profession" by Melvil Dewey in the American Library Journal Volume 1 Number 1reprinted in LJ Classics June 15, 1989
• Yes, Dewey the ideal is to "...shape the reading, and through it the thought, of [our] whole community" but as you yourself also said we must also continue "... regarding carefully the wants of [our] special community."
• "The school teaches them to read; the library must supply them with reading which shall serve to educate..." 

... Intellectual Freedom!  A Celebration of Equal Access to All Forms of Information

• Library Bill of Rights

Information vs. Knowledge?

• "The Purpose of the American Public Library in Historical Perspective: A Revisionist Interpretation" by Michael Harris

... Investment in the Use of the Mind!  A Commitment to Community and Social Resources