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While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once g
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and
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Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important f