“If the founding fathers came back to this country(USA) in this day and age, one of the things that would just thrill would be our public library system. . . Now there is a library in every town, every city, everywhere in the country. [The library] is the pure expression of democracy. . . . It is open to everybody and it’s all free. No other country in the world has anything like our public library system. . . .If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”
-David McCullough,
[ American author, narrator, historian, lecturer, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian award ]
Inspiring success stories of libraries:
- Strong Libraries Build Strong Communities: Providing Internet – Access in Latvia’s Public Libraries
- Libraries: Opening Doors and Creating Possibilities[ See how computers and Internet access are putting job-seekers in South Carolina into the workforce ]
- Library branches in New York City as community centers
- Education and Empowerment at the New York Public Library
- Texas Public Libraries: Economic Benefits and Return on Investment
- Georgia’s Public Libraries, 2006 Documentary
- Phoenix Public Library Guided Tour
- Libraries bridging the digital divide
- Librarian + Internet = Better Tomatoes [ Gates Foundation ]
- Effects of introducing Internet at a village public library in Ukraine [ Gates Foundation ]
- Vivek Pathagara, Rajsunakhala, Nayagarh
- Library At Beleswarpatna, Puri
- Public Library Tour, Pasadena, CA, USA