Today in 1833, the first tax-supported public library in the United States was established by town meeting of Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Jesse H. Shera in Foundations of the Public Library makes the case for the importance of the founding of the Peterborough Town Library.
"The public library is in every sense an institutional descendant of the social li…
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