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This print on demand edition of a hard-to-find publication provides a thorough and well-researched history of Benjamin Franklin’s enduring legacy within American libraries. Utilizing a vast array of resources, this book provides a wealth of information and historical context for readers and scholars interested in early American history and library studies and history.
Price: $34.99
Pages: 83
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
01 January 1965
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9781422376126
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
"The author has carefully examined manuscripts and printed materials on Franklin and the various institutions he sponsored or aided. It has … been meticulously researched and provides useful and, occasionally, amusing information about Franklin’s sixty-year influence on the founding of libraries…"
— Dorothy D. Gondos
"Almost anyone wishing to learn what Franklin had to do with an American library will find it included in Mrs. Korty’s monograph. It is a painstaking compendium… She has … brought together in one place from sometimes obscure printed sources more information than is available elsewhere on Franklin’s contributions to the early libraries of this country."
— Edwin Wolf II
"[I]t is a welcome contribution, and for all readers it presents documentation of Franklin’s library interests that supplements general statements in other works. … As a carefully compiled listing of Franklin’s relations to colonial library history, this is a useful monograph."
— E.D. Johnson
"Mrs. Korty has dealt clearly and succinctly with a highly specialized but at the same time very wide-ranging subject. Her theme sweeps through the intellectual life of the whole colonial seaboard, with transatlantic ties constantly in evidence. It is an affirmation of the universality of libraries, then as now, as instruments and strongholds in the advance of civilization."
— Charles Coleman Sellers
— Dorothy D. Gondos
"Almost anyone wishing to learn what Franklin had to do with an American library will find it included in Mrs. Korty’s monograph. It is a painstaking compendium… She has … brought together in one place from sometimes obscure printed sources more information than is available elsewhere on Franklin’s contributions to the early libraries of this country."
— Edwin Wolf II
"[I]t is a welcome contribution, and for all readers it presents documentation of Franklin’s library interests that supplements general statements in other works. … As a carefully compiled listing of Franklin’s relations to colonial library history, this is a useful monograph."
— E.D. Johnson
"Mrs. Korty has dealt clearly and succinctly with a highly specialized but at the same time very wide-ranging subject. Her theme sweeps through the intellectual life of the whole colonial seaboard, with transatlantic ties constantly in evidence. It is an affirmation of the universality of libraries, then as now, as instruments and strongholds in the advance of civilization."
— Charles Coleman Sellers
Margaret B. Korty is a library studies scholar and historian with a specialty in 18th century American library history. Her publications include Benjamin Franklin and Eighteenth-Century American Libraries (1965) and Franklin’s World of Books (1967).