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I'd invite you to reconsider the geographic scope and distribution of Carnegie libraries. They were not mostly "largish towns in the northeast". Here's a list

I'd invite you to reconsider the geographic scope and distribution of Carnegie libraries. They were not mostly "largish towns in the northeast". Here's a list of all Carnegie Libraries in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libraries_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libraries_in_... Here are the lists for the rest of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library#Lists_of_Carnegie_libraries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library#Lists_of_Carn...

WillAdams 2y ago
Yeah, but if you look at this list from the perspective of a kid in rural Virginia in the mid-70s --- there were only six in the state, two of them in a city on the coast, and three were academic libraries which were a long ways away, and not within the realm of possibility of visiting and most of them were already closed (only one is still operating as a library). Didn't get to the nearby college library until a class trip for my senior paper --- in addition to the research for that, checked out a copy of Knuth's _TeX and METAFONT_ which changed the course of my life.