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The Future of American Public Libraries: Reading the Past to Project a Future
Despite the dire predictions that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Now, two out of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, in Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library, author Wayne A. Wiegand shows that generations of library patrons tell a different story. Raymond Santiago, former director of the Miami-Dade public library system, will join Weigand for an insightful look into one of America’s most beloved cultural institutions.
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