https://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/history-us-public-libraries
In the introduction to this online exhibition, the
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) notes that libraries have historically
been viewed as a central part of democracy: "The ability to access free
information has become a core ideal of what it means to be an American citizen,
despite periods of historic inequality." This tension between the
democratic ideal of public libraries and the realities of ongoing inequality in
the United States is the center of this exhibition about the history of
libraries in the United States. This exhibition is organized into seven
thematic sections, such as Beginnings (which features a digitized copy of the
Library Company of Philadelphia's 1754 charter); A Profession for Women (which
includes numerous photographs from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
including a snapshot of a "packhorse library carrier" from Kentucky);
and Segregated Libraries (which highlights a recorded interview with librarian
and activist Annie L. McPheeters, who worked for the Atlanta Public Library
between 1934 and 1966 and ran an adult education program at the Auburn branch
library). Collectively, the thoughtfully annotated items in this collection
illustrate the diversity of libraries throughout American history and the role
that American citizens have played to ensure that libraries meet the needs of
their communities
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