[Ohiogift] The Public Library: A Photographic Essay Hardcover - April 8, 2014

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Just got this wonderful book:

 


The Public Library: A Photographic Essay Hardcover - April 8, 2014 


by Robert Dawson
<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Robert
+Dawson&search-alias=books&text=Robert+Dawson&sort=relevancerank>
(Photographer), Ann Patchett
<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Ann+Pa
tchett&search-alias=books&text=Ann+Patchett&sort=relevancerank>
(Afterword), Bill Moyers
<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_3?ie=UTF8&field-author=Bill+M
oyers&search-alias=books&text=Bill+Moyers&sort=relevancerank>  (Foreword) 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Public-Library-Photographic-Essay/dp/161689217X 

 

A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150
photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan,
Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.

Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library:
the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of
newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in America
also function as de facto community centers offering free access to the
internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter. And yet,
across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or
curtailing their hours of operation. Over the last eighteen years,
photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds
of these endangered institutions. The Public Library presents a wide
selection of Dawson's photographs- from the majestic reading room at the New
York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free
Library built by former slaves. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs
are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America's most celebrated
writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend
this important survey of a treasured American institution.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Dr. Lynn E. Elfner, CEO EMERITUS

The Ohio Academy of Science

Co-Director, Believe in Ohio http://believeinohio.org/ 

1500 W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 227

Columbus, Ohio 43212-2817

CELL: 740.417.3579

614.914.5095

Email Address - oas at iwaynet.net <mailto:oas at iwaynet.net> 

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Curiosity? Discovery. Innovation!



 

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Subject: Re: [Ohiogift] Dump the Books

 

 

And I bet the history books are gone, too!

(aka nonfiction adult reading)

 

 

Will Fitzhugh

 

 

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