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Campbell, Anne, Jeannie Mah, and Susan Birley, eds. Biblio Files: A History of the Regina Public Library. Regina, Canada: University of Regina Press, 2017.
Grindlay, Douglas J.C., and Anne Morris. “The Decline in Adult Book Lending in UK Public Libraries and Its Possible Causes: II. Statistical Analysis”. Journal of Documentation 60, no. 6 (2004): 632-57.
Dale, Shiela M. “Adult Learners, Educational Change and Public Libraries in the Netherlands, 1969-1991”. Open University, United Kingdom, 2003.
Eckardt, Hella. Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Burt, Laura. “Vivian Harsh, Adult Education, and the Library’s Role As Community Center”. Libraries & The Cultural Record 44, no. 2 (2009): 234-55.
Coleman, Brenda Weeks. “Keeping the Faith: The Public Library’s Commitment to Adult Education, 1950-2006”. University of Southern Mississippi, 2008.
Crowley, Bill. “Rediscovering the History of Readers Advisory Service”. Public Libraries 44, no. 1 (2005): 37-41.
Dilevko, Juris, and Candice F. C. Magowan. Reader’s Advisory Service in North American Public Libraries, 1870- 2005: A History and Critical Analysis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007.
Hawley, Johnnie Sue Saylor. “The Evolution of the Library Media Center: A Study of the Past, Current, and Projected Future Library Services Available in Johnson City, Tennessee”. East Tennessee State University, 2016.
Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. “Elizabeth Cleveland Morriss (1877-1960), Leader of the Literacy and Adult Elementary Education Movement in North Carolina”. Information & Culture 52, no. 2 (2017): 186-206.
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Monroe, Margaret E. Margaret Monroe: Memoirs of a Public Librarian. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 2006.
Novotny, Eric. “Bricks Without Straw: Economic Hardship and Innovation in the Chicago Public Library During the Great Depression”. Libraries & The Cultural Record 46, no. 3 (2011): 258-75.
Pawley, Christine. “Reading Versus the Red Bull: Cultural Constructions of Democracy and the Public Library in Cold War Wisconsin”. American Studies 42, no. 3 (2001): 87-103.
Pollak, Oliver B. “Reading Little Blue Books and Libraries: A Guide to Self-Improvement”. Nebraska Library Association Quarterly 38 (2007): 9-15.
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Crawford, John C. “A Not Unedifying Field for Some Local Antiquary of the Future’: New Evidence on Library Activity and Mutual Improvement. The Experience of the North-East of Scotland”. Library & Information History 36, no. 1 (2020): 18-31.
Alvarez, Barbara A. “The American Heritage Project: A Legacy of Public Libraries and Community Discussions”. Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 5, no. 1 (2021): 76-101.
Bannet, Eve Tavor. Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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