Why the public library is different

from anything else

(and maybe better)

Somerville PL Friends Group, Somerville MA
June 25, 2014

Handouts & Files

• Slides and Notes: PDF, Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Links to cited sources/images

• Quotable Facts about America's Libraries (pdf)
• How libraries Stack Up by OCLC (pdf)
• Library Bill of Rights
• Library Values and Hacker Values (distillation of Bill of Rights)
• Duke Center for the Study of Public Domain and comic
• Find content to reuse on Google
• Digital Images Sources - Free for Academic/Scholarly Use
• DPLA wins grant for "simplified rights structure"
• Internet Archive and Open Library
• Little Free Library map
• Montreal's Livre-Service
• Odd lending collections: Seeds, Humans, Ukuleles
• Awesome Box: Somerville MA, Chelsea VT
• NJLAs super librarian