Libraries a repository of changing ideas

Libraries a repository of changing ideas comes to us from the land O’ Daniel. Written by Greg Hill, director of Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries, the article talks about Carnegie and Peabody. Like Carnegie, Peabody was a self-made American millionaire who received only a few years of formal education, and later in life decided to do something to make it easier on future generations. Instead of building little libraries like Carnegie, Peabody built one big one to improve, “the moral and intellectual culture of the inhabitants of Baltimore.” He insisted that it be open “for the free use of all persons who may desire to consult it.”

October 4, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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