The Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large municipally funded public library in the United States. Although the library was founded in 1848, the origin

Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important f

Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years following World War II. By 1950 it had lost a quarter of its tax bas