# Free Reading for All: The Story of the American Public Library

Free Reading for All: The Story of the American Public Library Produced: 1950 Description Documentary: On the development of American public libraries. R.1: Shows Columbia University Library, New York Public Library and Peterboro Library, New Hampshire. Patrons use library materials, including phonograph records and braille readers. Librarian conducts children's story hour. R.2: Shows school, local, apartment house libraries, and Chinese patrons at the Chatham Square Library, New York. Montifiore Hospital volunteer, in New York, moves book cart to patients' rooms; bookmobile serves rural areas in Rutland, Vt. Researchers in the Library of Congress reading room, Washington, D.C. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/94880

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1950
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/h-hf-103-r1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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