APL highlighted as a leader of libraries
The
Appleton Public Library has been included as a notable library "poised to
enter the twenty-first century" in the new book Reinvention of the Public
Library for the 21st Century, edited by William L. Whitesides, Sr. and
published by Libraries Unlimited.
The book
contains essays about the library environment, the public library as
"place", people and libraries and the use of technology to provide
library service. Eleven libraries, most from large cities such as Atlanta, New
York, San Francisco and Kalamazoo as well as the Appleton Public Library are
profiled as leaders among public libraries.
Library
Director Terry Dawson says in the book that new technologies have given
librarians new tools and opportunities to do "what we've always tried to
do," which is to promote learning and make all kinds of knowledge from all
points of view available to all parts of society.
Graduate students from the School of Library and Information Science of Catholic University of America wrote the essays in the book.
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