There's a recent episode in the Citations Needed podcast [0] (episode 179) that discusses public libraries. There is a bit of history that is presented about An

There's a recent episode in the Citations Needed podcast [0] (episode 179) that discusses public libraries. There is a bit of history that is presented about Andrew Carnegie's contributions to the current system we have today: how the US library system started out with private funding before transitioning to public funding. [0]: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-179-from-budget-cuts-to-book-bans-the-decades-long-assault-on-public-libraries https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-179-from-budget-c...