Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach

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Summary: An impressive selection of fourteen essays
Review: Collaboratively compiled and edited by Purdue University librarians Robert S. Freeman and David M. Hovde, Libraries To The People: Histories Of Outreach is an impressive selection of fourteen essays by experienced authors examining the difficulties libraries face in providing easily accessible educational and enriching resources to those portions of the population who are most estranged by socioeconomic, geographic, or cultural factors. Discussing libraries in low-population areas, shipboard libraries for the American navy, using radio to promote libraries, electronic outreach that predates the Internet, and much, much more, Libraries To The People is a seminal work with ideas critical to advancing the benefits of the library to the entire public and a very strongly recommended addition to professional and academic Library Science reference collections.