Do We Still Need Libraries?

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In the internet age what's the point of libraries? Do we even still need these brick and mortar buildings when a lot of knowledge can be found online? Today, Danielle examines the history of libraries around the world and what role they still play in society.

Written and Hosted by: Danielle Bainbridge
Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios
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Works Cited

Black librarianship:
McHenry, Elizabeth. “An Association of Kindred Spirits: Black Readers and Their Reading Rooms,” in Augst and Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), pp. 99-118.
Fultz, Michael. "Black Public Libraries in the South in the Era of De Jure Segregation." Libraries & the Cultural Record 41, no. 3 (2006): 337-59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25549344.
Whitmire, Ethelene. "Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library." Libraries & the Cultural Record42, no. 4 (2007): 409-21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25549439.
Welburn, William C. "To "Keep the Past in Lively Memory": William Carl Bolivar's Efforts to Preserve African American Cultural Heritage." Libraries & the Cultural Record 42, no. 2 (2007): 165-79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25549403.

History of Libraries:
https://www.history.com/news/8-impres...
https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-...
http://www.ala.org/rt/lhrt/popularres... (ALA Works Cited for history of the library)
Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries 1754-1911 Tom Glynn
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31154/...
Augst, Thomas, and Kenneth Carpenter, eds. Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vk7zt.
Carpenter, Kenneth, and Thomas Augst. ""The History of Libraries in the United States": A Conference Report." Libraries & Culture38, no. 1 (2003): 61-66. http://www.jstor.org.turing.library.n....
Augst, Thomas. "Introduction: American Libraries and Agencies of Culture." American Studies 42, no. 3 (2001): 5-22. http://www.jstor.org.turing.library.n....
Goedeken, Edward A. "The Literature of American Library History, 2006-2007." Libraries & the Cultural Record 44, no. 4 (2009): 434-70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20720618.
Riedlmayer, András. "Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 29, no. 1 (1995): 7-11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23061201.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/t...
https://www.history.com/topics/invent...
https://www.businessinsider.com/insid...
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/01/207272...

Do we still need libraries?:
https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/history-...
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/e...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/20...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
https://qz.com/1039294/millennials-ar...
https://psmag.com/social-justice/says...

Opinion Pieces (WashPo and NYTimes):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/20...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/op...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/ny...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/op...