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Books and the World. Center for the Book Viewpoint Series No. 22.
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Billington, James H. – 1988
The most ambitious connection that libraries can make in our time is the link between an individual and the rest of the world. Libraries are the places where books and other records of human memory and imagination are transmitted from one group of people to another, and librarians are the impresarios of the process. Personal experience and long…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Cultural Awareness, Democratic Values