Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez on Libraries (edited)
Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez and First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez visited ALA October 1 in hopes of starting a relationship between the libraries and librarians of the two countries. In this edited interview, they discuss libraries as tools for economic development, the Dominican Republic’s Reading Olympics, and how American librarians can help development in the Dominican Republic.
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“Even though Spaulding’s name is not readily recognized, he was an American patriot who safeguarded the freedoms of US citizens by writing the Library Bill of Rights.”
Teresa Wood, describing Forrest Brisbane Spaulding, head of Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library from 1929 to 1952, as depicted in the play The Not So Quiet Librarian, “A Librarian to Remember,” Webster City (Iowa) Daily Freeman-Journal, Apr. 20.
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