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1. Public library and other stories

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Author:
Smith, Ali, 1962-
Publisher:
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Middlecreek Community - Adult Fiction
SMITH
Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
SMITH
West Regional - Adult Fiction
SMITH
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"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all...

2. Wake County Public Library papers

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Raleigh (N.C.)
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Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
ARCHIVE 2004.014
Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
ARCHIVE 2004.014 Box #1 CAM
Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
ARCHIVE 2004.014 Box#1 BKM LAB
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The collection is divided into the following subgroups: Olivia Raney Library, 1899-1996; Library Administration, 1966-2004; Friends of the Library, 1981-2001; Apex/Eva Perry Regional Library, 1957-; Athens Drives Library, 1977-; Cameron Village Regional Library,1974-; Cary Library, 1960-; Fuquay-Varina Library, 1954-; Garner/Southeast Regional Library, 1968-; Richard B. Harrison Library, 1935-; Knightdale/East Regional Library, 1971-; North Hills/Twin...

3. Overdue: reckoning with the public library

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Author:
Oliver, Amanda
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
027.473 OLIVE
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Non-Fiction
027.473 OLIVE
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
027.473 OLIVE
Description:
When Oliver began work as a school librarian she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis-support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and arms of state surveillance. Here she highlights the national problems that have existed in library since they were founded:...

4. I work at a public library

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Author:
Sheridan, Gina
Publisher:
Adams Media
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
027.02 SHERI
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
027.02 SHERI
Holly Springs Community - Adult Non-Fiction
027.02 SHERI

5. The Colonial and State records of North Carolina

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Author:
North Carolina
Publisher:
Broadfoot
Pub. Date:
1993
Language:
English
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Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction has 11
975.6 NORTH RR-NCHIST
Olivia Raney Local History - Microfilm/Fiche - Consult Staff
PS268-001 v.1 tp-59
Olivia Raney Local History - Microfilm/Fiche - Consult Staff
PS268-002 v.1 60-151

6. Ring a ring o' roses: finger plays for pre-school children

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Author:
Flint Public Library (Mich.)
Publisher:
The Library
Pub. Date:
199?
Language:
English
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East Regional - Reference
R J793.4 RING

7. The New York Public Library African American desk reference

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Publisher:
J. Wiley
Pub. Date:
[1999]
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Richard B Harrison - Reference
R 973 New 1999

8. Wake County Public Library Events, 2007-2011

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Olivia Raney Local History - Archival Materials - Consult Staff
SC 00485
Description:
1 flyer for Great Harvest Bread Co., including blurb about Wake County Public Libraries' Reading Program. 1 correspondence including list of library events, 2011. 1 brochure of Guide to Wake County Services Annual Report and Map, 2007. 1 flyer for Citizen Update, July 2007. 1 flyer for Wake Kids Storytimes. 1 booklet of information for events at Wake County Public Libraries, 2010-2011. 1 copies of webpages relating to Cameron Village Regional Library,...

9. Part of our lives: a people's history of the American public library

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Author:
Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
027.473 WIEGA
East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
027.473 WIEGA
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Non-Fiction
027.473 WIEGA
Description:
"Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Instead, this book uses the voices of generations of public library users to argue that Americans have loved their libraries for the useful information they make accessible; the public spaces they provide; and the commonplace reading materials they supply that help users make sense of the world around them."--

10. Wake County Public Library Foundation and Library Fund, 1998-1999

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Olivia Raney Local History - Archival Materials - Consult Staff
SC 00484
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1 copy of correspondence from Shelley Eason addressed to Becky Auman (Triangle Community Foundation), Louise Anderson, and Doug Longhini, 10 September 1999. 7 leaves of copies of draft documents for use in establishing the Wake County Public Library Trust to be administered by the Triangle Community Foundation, 1999. 4 brochures for the Wake County Public Library Fund, 1999. 1 booklet for the Wake County Public Library Foundation. 4 photographs of...

11. Miscellaneous Wake County Public Library articles, 2009-2012

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Olivia Raney Local History - Archival Materials - Consult Staff
SC 00486
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1 copy of article titled "Five Minutes with Suzanna O'Donnell," 2012. 1 copy of article titled "Why Cut Wake's Library Budget Now?" 2009.

12. Home and Neighborhood Development Society Records: Inventory

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Wake County Public Libraries
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English
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Olivia Raney Local History - Archival Materials - Consult Staff has 4
ARCHIVES 2011.009
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Part of a national program sponsoored by Sears, Roebuck Foundation to revitalize older neighborhoods, the raleighbranch of the Home and Neighborhood Development Sponsors was founded in 1958 and headed by Vallie Henderson, lifelong resident of the Oakwood neighborhood of Raleigh. The organization was largely made up of members of the various Raleigh garden clubs, and concentrated on beautifying Raleigh neighborhoods, later concentration on beautifying...

13. Marriage records from the files of the Greensboro, N.C. Patriot, 1826-1899

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Author:
Greensboro Public Library (N.C.)
Series:
Genealogy and local history volume PS 245
Publisher:
[The Library?]
Pub. Date:
[1900?]
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Olivia Raney Local History - Microfilm/Fiche - Consult Staff
PS 245 Fiche 1
Olivia Raney Local History - Microfilm/Fiche - Consult Staff
PS 245 Fiche 2
Olivia Raney Local History - Microfilm/Fiche - Consult Staff
PS 245 Fiche 3

14. The New York Public Library book of twentieth-century American quotations

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Publisher:
Warner Books
Pub. Date:
[1992]
Language:
English
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Richard B Harrison - Reference
R 808.88 NEW

15. Little River Historical Society, Inc. Collection: Inventory

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Wake County Public Libraries
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English
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Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
ARCHIVE 2011.005
Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
ARCHIVE 2011.005 Carton#1
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The Little River Historical Society was founded in 1977, and is dedicated to learning about and preserving the unique local history of Zebulon and the surrounding areas. The collection includes scrapbooks spaning 1977-1984.

16. The southern Negro and the public library: a study of the government and administration of public library service to Negroes in the South

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Author:
Gleason, Eliza Valeria [Atkins], 1809-
Series:
Half title The University of Chicago Studies in Library science
Publisher:
The University of Chicago press
Pub. Date:
1941
Language:
English
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Richard B Harrison - Adult Non-Fiction - Does Not Circulate
LEE 027.40 G

17. The New York Public Library amazing mythology: a book of answers for kids

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Author:
January, Brendan, 1972-
NoveList Series:
New York Public Library answer books for kids
Series:
New York Public Library answer books for kids
Publisher:
J. Wiley
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
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Cary Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
J201 JANUA
East Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
J201 JANUA
Green Road Community - Childrens Non-Fiction
J201 JANUA
Description:
Over two hundred questions and answers introduce myths from many ancient cultures, including Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse, and Native American.

18. Breaking glass ceilings: Clara Stanton Jones and the Detroit Public Library

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Author:
Chancellor, Renate, 1965-
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
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Richard B Harrison - Biography - Does Not Circulate
B JONES
Description:
"This book tells the story of Clara Stanton Jones, the first woman to direct a major public library system in the United States and the first African American president of the ALA. After being appointed as Director of the Detroit Public Library in 1944, Jones transformed libraries everywhere"--

19. The services of the Richard B. Harrison Public Library, Raleigh, North Carolina

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Author:
Browning, George Stradley
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date:
1962
Language:
English
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Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
975.655 BROWNING RR-WAKE
Richard B Harrison - Adult Non-Fiction - Does Not Circulate
LEE 027.4 BROWN

20. The history of public library service in Durham, North Carolina, 1897 to 1997: Jessica Harland-Jacobs

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Author:
Harland-Jacobs, Jessica
Publisher:
Durham County Library
Pub. Date:
[1998]
Language:
English
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Olivia Raney Local History - Adult Non-Fiction
975.6563 HARLAND

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