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    1. Blacks were forbidden to use public libraries, yet young Wright managed to get the books he so desperately wanted. How did he do this? Give evidence from the reading in your response. You may quote from the reading. If you do, remember to include the page and line number of the quote. Blacks were forbidden to use public libraries, yet young Wright managed to get the books he so desperately wanted. He lied to the white librarian when he answers her questions:" Who gave you this card?" "Mr. Falk

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    weather, The Duchess stood unrivaled and proud, a fine example of a blend of modern architecture and art. The Grand Duchess Library wasn’t just a mere public library, but in fact it was the town’s landmark and a source of pride for the locals since it depicted art in its construction along with housing knowledge. It was at this time that Elijah sat in the sanctuary of the library, writing on a rectangular piece of parchment, light sienna in shade and deep in its tone. Dark ink flowed smoothly out onto

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    Get Rid of Banned Books for Good The American Library Association has recorded a total of 275 books that were challenged in 2015, The Holy Bible was one of the top 10 most challenged books. The challenging and banning of books is a huge item in the United States of America. The American Library Association has a week devoted to banning books which takes place the last week end of September. Banned Books Week for 2016 will be September 25 through October 1. It is not ethical to ban books due to content

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    College Libraries and online databases are a very essential part of a college courses curriculum, rather they are traditional as well as non traditional students. The online database can offer you thinks like Scholarly Journals, which will be explained in this paper. This paper will also explain what popular searches are as well, which is a definitely important to learn the difference between the two although they both can be extremely helpful when writing research papers. Also the proper way to

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    the subscription library. Subscription Library was first established in Liverpool in 1758, and it spread across Britain, growing the number of subscribers along the way. It was essentially a private library, requiring a payment of a guinea for entry and another ten shillings or so for the annual subscription fee. In turn, the members were allowed access to the permanent collection of the books. In this essay, I would like to discuss the possible purposes of the subscription library in the eighteenth

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    A critical issue facing public libraries is how to stay relevant in the community to prevent closures or budget cuts. In “Looking at the Future of Libraries,” R. Toby Greenwalt asserts that the future of libraries is as a community connector providing users with the means to enable their creativity (Greenwalt). Greenwalt, the director of Digital Strategy and Technology Integration at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, believes libraries should disrupt conventional wisdom of what it can provide for

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    the first amendment, library staff has right to complaint against the library committee to Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as they were held up with hostile environment. Library is a public place where various categories of people come to improve their knowledge with available library resources in a peaceful environment. It is very important for library team to take proper precautions as children of age below eighteen also visit public libraries. If the libraries don’t have filters

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    statement from 2010 suggests that the library profession is either oblivious to, or choosing to ignore the plight of those most in need in society. Seven years on, there is no halt in the growing gap between rich and poor and public libraries are still justifying their existence, in a climate of declining funding for services. Changes to the UK welfare system have accelerated, with a drive for government services to be ‘digital by default’ (Rust, 2014). Public libraries and their staff are amongst the

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    of us. We had a very specific process when conducting our research. First we went to the store and bought a binder, dividers, and paper. Next we looked around online and cited a few sources that seemed to have good info. Then we went to the public library and checked out a few books. After that we looked at every book and website and wrote down as much information as we could. Last we split all of the information up into six sections- Early Life, Family, Getting Into Baseball,

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    One of the statements in the movie that was shown on September 12 at the Lawrence Public Library, “This Changes Everything,” that really resounded with me was, “We are its [Earth’s] machine. We are its masters.” Throughout the movie different locations were described, from the oil in Canada that was destroying the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Yellowstone River in Montana, New York City, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, France, India, and China. It was interesting to link the different issues in those places

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