The Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large municipally funded public library in the United States. Although the library was founded in 1848, the origin

Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years following World War II. By 1950 it had lost a quarter of its tax bas

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