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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Louisiana Libraries
Author: The Louisiana Library Book
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793330602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Public Libraries
Author: Spreading the Gospel of Books
Author: Florence M. JumonvillePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807172596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every parish by 1969. In Spreading the Gospel of Books, Florence M. Jumonville chronicles the impressive, colorful history of Louisiana parish libraries and the State Library of Louisiana. She draws upon Culver’s journals and library reports, in addition to correspondence, scrapbooks, and State Library internal documents, and includes photos from five decades, many never before published. The campaign to persuade individual parishes to financially support a library of their own was a long, uphill pull through poverty and politics, flood and famine, discouragement and depression, war and bureaucracy, ignorance and prejudice. Culver credited success to the citizens, whose thirst for books and embrace of the idea of a library inspired perseverance. In time, Culver’s Louisiana plan served as an exemplar of library development elsewhere in the United States as well as abroad. Culver touched the lives of generations of Louisianians who have never heard her name. Spreading the Gospel of Books is her story, along with that of colleagues and supporters, of making the dream of library service come true for all.
LLA Bulletin
Author: Louisiana Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Libraries
Author: Mary Eileen AhernPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Biennial Report of the Louisiana State Library
Author: Louisiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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How to Start a Louisiana Library
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793342872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
What, Where, why of Louisiana Parish Libraries
Author: Louisiana State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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The Bulletin
Author: Louisiana Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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