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Public libraries

Where Our New World Begins

by Kevin Baker,

Politics, power, and the Green New Deal

Illiteracy campaign

by Harper’s Staff,

Return to lender

by Nan Jehle,

Trouble at the reference desk

by Bruce A. Shuman,

Silence, please

by Sallie Tisdale,

The public library as entertainment center

Louisville cashes in on culture

by William Raymond Manchester,

Was he joking?

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

The public libraries of the United States

by Edward Howland,

Concord books

by Hannah R. Hudson,

George Ticknor’s Spanish collection

by G.S. (Gardiner Spring) Plumley,

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