PBS NewsHour: “Benjamin Franklin’s Literary Legacy Lives on in Country’s Longest-Running Lending Library”
From the PBS NewsHour:
The town of Franklin, Massachusetts, treasures these books from the 1700s because they are the genesis of the first and oldest public free lending library in continuous operation in America. A revolutionary idea at the time, the volumes were a gift from famous patriot Benjamin Franklin.
Watch the Report, Read the Text Transcript
See Also: Direct to Franklin, MA Public Library Website
See Also: Ben’s Books (via Rhode Island Public Television)
Filed under: Libraries, News, Public Libraries
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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