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• CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (revised edition, 2012; with supplementary teaching materials), ed. by Jeanette Larson, contrib. by Belinda Boon and Joseph P. Segal (PDF at Texas State Library)
• Fiction in public libraries (1904), by Ellen Mary Schaefer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Supplementary order list for Clinton Public Library (1904), by Belle Sweet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Posobīe pri vybori͡e knig dli͡a knizhnykh skladov, narodnykh publichnykh i shkolʹnykh biblīotek, pri vydachi͡e iz nikh knig, a takzhe dli͡a samoobrazovanīi͡a (T-vo "Podnoĭ mīr", 1908), by N. A. Malinovskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• County Library Service in the South: A Study of the Rosenwald County Library Demonstration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935), by Louis Round Wilson and Edward A. Wight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternate futures for the public library (School of Library Science, University of Michigan, 1973), by Genevieve M. Casey and Richard L. Darling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The combined school/public library concept : will it work? (Illinois State University ;, 1977), by Wilma Lee Broughton Woolard and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The free public library : preprint of Manual of library economy, chapter 4 (American Library Association Publishing Board, 1914), by Isabel Ely Lord and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library manual. ([Lansing?, 1937), by United States. Work Projects Administration. Michigan and Marjorie Kerwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Material and plans for a county library campaign. (American library association, 1923), by American Library Association and Forrest B. Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The county library; the pioneer county library (the Brumback library of Van Wert County, Ohio) and the county library movement in the United States (The Pioneer press, 1914), by Saida Antrim and Ernest Irving Antrim (page images at HathiTrust)
• County library conference November 4th to 6th, 1924 (Dunfermline;, 1925), by London County library conference. 2d, J. M. Mitchell, and Carnegie United Kingdom Trust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• County free library organizing in California, 1909-1918; personal recollections. (Committee on California Library History, Bibliography, and Archives of the California Library Association, 1955), by Harriet G. Eddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• County library systems; their history, organisation and administration (Grafton & co., 1922), by Duncan Gray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• County library service (American library association, 1925), by Harriet Catherine Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• What, where, why of Louisiana parish libraries. (Baton Rouge, 1944), by Louisiana State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• County and regional library development. (American Library Association, 1954), by Gretchen Knief Schenk (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the county line; a manual on county library extension in Indiana. (Indiana Library Association and Indiana State Library, 1953), by Indiana Library Association and Indiana State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural America reads; a study of rural library service (American association for adult education, 1938), by Marion Humble (page images at HathiTrust)
• County, regional and district library laws (American Library Association, 1957), by American Library Association. Public Libraries Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of rural school library practices and services (The United States Office of education, Department of the interior, with the cooperation of Carnegie corporation of New York and the American library association, 1934), by Edith A. Lathrop, American Library Association, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digest of county library laws of the United States, 1936 (American library association, 1937), by Frank Leland Tolman, June Lambert, and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, containing a report on the public libraries of the United States of America, January 1, 1850 (Smithsonian Institution, 1851), by Charles C. Jewett, Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents, and United States. Congress 1849-1851). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria : 1856-1906 (Printed for the trustees of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria, 1906), by Edmund La Touche Armstrong and Museums Public Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A report to Carnegie Corporation of New York on the policy of donations to free public libraries. (University of Michigan Library, 1915), by Alvin Saunders Johnson and Carnegie Corporation of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to organize a county library campaign. (Committee on library extension, American library association, 1928), by American Library Association. Library Extension Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to organize a county library campaign. (Committee on library extension, American library association, 1928), by American Library Association. Committee on Library Extension (page images at HathiTrust)
• The superintendent makes a discovery ; the answer to the rural school reading problem (Library extension board, American library association, 1931), by Lucile Foster Fargo and American Library Association. Committee on Library Extension (page images at HathiTrust)
• County library service to rural schools (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1930), by Edith A. Lathrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• County rural libraries, their policy and organisation. (Grafton;, 1923), by Robert Duncan Macleod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of suggestions and procedures for South Carolina county libraries. (Columbia, 1948), by South Carolina. State Library Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• An illustrated souvenir of the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, New York. (Issued by Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michigan county libraries; county uniform accounting manual. ([Lansing, 1945), by Michigan. Office of the Auditor General (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bookmobile manual for school service. (Maumee, Ohio, 1955), by Maumee Lucas County Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Branch manual. (Maumee, Ohio, 1955), by Maumee Lucas County Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical report (London, in the 1930s), by Library Association. County Libraries Group (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Tulsa City-County Library's health information service (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, 1982), by Kelly Jennings, Craig Buthod, Inc Raven Systems & Research, and Center for Health Promotion and Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books for town and country. (American Library Association, 1928), by American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public relations of the public library (1948), by Ahmed Anwar Omar and University of Michigan. Department of Library Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliothèque, essai sur le développement des bibliothèques publiques et de la librairie dans les deux mondes ... (Mercvre de France, 1909), by Eugène Morel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California library service, economical, equal, complete ... (California State Printing Office, 1915), by California State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Group services in public libraries. (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1968), by Grace T. Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improving state aid to public libraries : report (National Commission on Libraries and Information Science : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by inc Government Studies & Systems, Urban Libraries Council, and United States. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• The library of the open road (New York state college of agriculture at Cornell University, 1929), by Ralph Almon Felton and Marjorie Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women's clubs and public libraries : paper read before the State Federation of Women's Clubs (The Board, 1902), by Mary Clare Wilson Spencer, Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, and Michigan State Board of Library Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• The county library ([The University], 1918), by University of Montana (System). Library and Gertrude Buckhous (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book wagons; the county library with rural book delivery ... (American Library Association, 1922), by American Library Association, Mary Frank Mason, and Mary Lemist Titcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to start a public library. (Lincoln, 1902), by Nebraska Library Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some conclusions relative to public libraries (Riverside Press, 1874), by William W. Greenough and American Social Science Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• County library law of the United States ... (1918), by Charles M. Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ortonville Public Library (Big Stone County Historical Society Museum, 228 NW 2nd Street, Ortonville, Minnesota 56278) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Free libraries and newsrooms : their formation and management (H. Sotheran, 1869), by J. D. Mullins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The green book of methods for organizing county library service ... (Gaylord Bros., 1922), by Syracuse Gaylord Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• A small public library (1911), by Ralph Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California county free libraries. (California State Printing Office, 1917), by California State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - the Reference Department. (the Library,], 1912), by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free public libraries for Canada working-men's prize essays (Citizen, 1882), by T. K. Henderson and H. M. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bibliothèques populaires (s.n.], 1890), by Eugène Rouillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public library its place in our educational system (W. Briggs, 1912), by E. A. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern public libraries and their methods (J. Hope, 1902), by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report / Ontario Library Association (s.n., 1916), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some conclusions relative to public librari (Printed for the American Social Science Association, 1874), by William Whitwell Greenough and American Social Science Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new departure in the common schools of Quincy : three papers on educational topics (Estes and Lauriat, 1881), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bibliothèques populaires (s.n.], 1890), by Eugène Rouillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public library and the city government ([n.p., 1908), by Walter Benjamin Briggs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the board of trustees and ... annual report of the librarian (U.S. G.P.O., 1899), by District of Columbia. Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Trustees of the City Library of Lowell. (The Library], 1888), by Lowell City Library (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om folkbibliotek : Anteckningar ([publisher not identified], 1897), by Ernst Ebbe Julius Bring (page images at HathiTrust)
• County councils and village libraries. ([Printed by T. Sowler and sons limited], 1890), by William Robert Credland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The libraries and the counties. (W. Lewis, 1906), by Harry Farr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Summary of existing county library laws. ([publisher not identified], 1920), by William James Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir of the Charles Larned memorial and Free public library, Oxford, Massachusetts (G.H. Ellis, 1906), by Charles Larned Memorial and Free Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sierra Educational News. V.17, no. 6., June, 1921. ([publisher not identified], 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on public libraries, traveling libraries, traveling pictures and study clubs (New York State Education Dept., 1906), by New York State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on public libraries. (New York State Education Dept., 1902), by New York State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• School and county library cooperation. ([United States. Govt. print. off], 1930), by Edith A. Lathrop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le biblioteche del popolo : il primo anno del Consorzio milanese per le biblioteche popolari (Consorzio delle biblioteche popolari, via Ugo Foscolo 5, 1905), by Ettore Fabietti, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Filippo Turati, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library service in Ohio, prepared by the Adult Education Committee of the Ohio Library Association in cooperation with the Ohio State Library, Columbus, O. ([Columbus ?, 1939), by Ohio Library Association, Pauline J. Fihe, and State Library of Ohio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mechanized information services in California public libraries. [Parts 1-5] of the final report on Specifications of a mechanized center for information services for a public library reference center. (Los Angeles, 1968), by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books for town and country. ([publisher not identified], 1928), by American Library Association. Library Extension Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to organize a county library campaign. (Committee on library extension, American library association, 1929), by American Library Association. Library Extension Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bildung und staat : Volksbibliotheken. (W. Braumüller, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Openbare leesmusea en volksbibliotheken. (Maas & Suchtelen, 1906), by H. E. Greve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to organize a county library campaign ... (Committee on Library Extension, American Library Association, 1927), by American Library Association. Library Extension Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• What of the Black and Yellow races? ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1913., 1913), by William F. Yust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Open shelves : negative, following Miss Isabel Ely Lord's paper affirmative, at the annual conference of the American Library Association at Minnetonka, Minn., June 27 1908 ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1908., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the free library committee for the year ending ... (Ashton, 1895), by Ashton-under-Lyne : Public Free Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• WPA library project. ([publisher not identified], 1939), by Minnesota. Department of Education. Library Division, Lee Franklin Zimmerman, and United States. Work Projects Administration (Minn.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The John Rylands Library : a brief historical description of the library and its contents, with catalogue of a selection of manuscripts and printed books exhibited on the occasion of the visit of the congregational union of England and Wales in October, MCMXII. (At the University Press ;, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to secure a county library including the text of the county library law of Texas. Texas library and historical commission. State library. ([Austin, 1931), by Texas State Library, Texas, and Texas Library and Historical Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Summary of the hearings held in connection with HR 456 ([Illinois General Assembly], 1974), by Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Revenue Committee. Subcommittee on Library Financing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The role of the public library in American life : a speculative essay (University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1975), by Michael H. Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of Federal funding of public libraries : a study (National Commission on Libraries and Information Science : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1976), by Government Studies and Systems (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistics of public libraries serving areas with at least 25,000 inhabitants (National Center for Educational Statistics, 1968), by National Center for Educational Statistics. Library Surveys Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champaign Public Library loan system [and rules]. (1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Open shelves : read before the Illinois State Library Association, at East St. Louis, February 22d, 1900. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1900., 1900), by Erastus Swift Willcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginning and the end of the best library service in the world (Francisco Pub. Co., 1924), by Laura Steffens Suggett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library services and construction act : 97th Congress authorization ([Washington, D.C.] : The Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Major Issues System, [1982], 1982), by Mark L. Wolfe and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of public libraries : appropriations and expenditures, June, 1903. ([Madison] : [the Commission], 1903., 1903), by Wisconsin Free Library Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public libraries of northern Virginia : an analysis of needs ([publisher not identified], 1962), by Northern Virginia Regional Planning Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Iowa public library laws ([Iowa Library Commission], 1914), by Iowa Library Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Library Guide. (Aurora Public Library], in the 20th century), by Ill.) Aurora Public Library (Aurora (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books added to the public library in 1902. ([Pontiac, Ill.] : [Pontiac Public Library], 1902., 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the art library in the art building : S.Mark: Venice: its mosaics: its sculptures: and its treasures. ([Springfield, Mass.] : [The City Library Association], [1898?], 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The library and the lecture ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identifed], [1906], 1906), by Frank C. Patten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Bronson library. (Waterbury : Silas Bronson Library, 1909., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestions for use in establishing county libraries. (Chicago, 1924), by International Lions Clubs. County Library Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to the fourth catalogue of books of the Urbana Free Library. (Urbana : Press of the Herald, 1905., 1905), by Urbana Free Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston Public Library : a condensed guide to its use. (Boston : The Trustees, 1921., 1921), by Boston Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standards and planning for public libraries. (A.L.A., 1940), by American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries, by Arthur E. Bostwick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Why do we need a public library? Material for a library campaign, ed. by Chalmers Hadley (Gutenberg ebook)

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