When Andrew Carnegie started to fulfill his visions of the American public library, he did so based on childhood experience in Scotland where a generous townsman opened his personal library so that “working boys” could acquire the knowledge to improve them selves. Carnegie believed that anyone who worked hard could become successful. And he saw libraries as a portal to a better quality of life. In fact, he inscribed this above many of his libraries. Notice it doesn’t say “Let there Be BOOKS.”

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