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A Book for All Readers

by Ainsworth Rand Spofford

A practical guide to what a well-run public library should actually contain and how it ought to be organised, written by one of the people who helped shape the modern profession. Spofford took the responsibility of curating a collection more seriously than almost anyone else in this section. I would like to think he would approve, on balance, of how this particular library turned out.

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Reading time
About 10 hr 20 min
Where to find it
On the Archive shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #22608. In the public domain in the United States.

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