Carnegie Denied
Subtitle: Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants, 1898-1925 (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: February 28, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780313286094
Subjects: Flood control; Libraries & information centres; Language Arts & Disciplines; History - General History; Language; Reference; General; Library & Information Science; Carnegie, Andrew; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science; 19th century; 20th century; Finance; History; Public Libraries; United States
First sentence: Andrew Carnegie expected that his philanthropic efforts on behalf of libraries would swell into national programs by sheer force of example, with the successful development of libraries he supported leading to emulation by other philanthropists providing money for other programs.