@article{9627,
  author = {Bernadette A. Lear},
  title = {Yankee Librarian in the Diamond City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, and the Public Library Movement in Pennsylvania},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid- Atlantic Studies},
  volume = {78},
  pages = {123-62},
  note = {<p>Examines the later career of Hannah Packard James (1835–1903), who was the first librarian of the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre, one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Library Association, and an early leader in the American Library Association.</p><p>&nbsp;Received the 2012 Donald G. Davis Article Award issued by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every even-numbered year to recognize the best article written in English in the field of United States and Canadian library history.</p>},
  language = {English},
}