Free & Public: One Hundred and Fifty Years at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County 1853-2003 (First Edition, Publisher Copy)

$90.00

FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER COPY (4 COPIES AVAILABLE).

  • 143 pages

  • 9 x 12

  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 978-1882203-918

  • Copyright 2003

By John Fleischman

For outsiders, the question is simple: Why on earth in Cincinnati? (The local question is, of course, Please?) The answer is in this book, a colorful walk through one hundred and fifty years at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, an institution ahead of its time in a city always ahead with its ambitions.

The Library was authorized in 1853 an opened a public reading room in 1856. That incredibly early start put the Library in Cincinnati well ahead and it has stayed ahead, playing in the public library big leagues right into the 21st century.

In 2000, America’s 52nd largest county had the third busiest public library system and the second largest collection in the nation. Anyone who has ever held a library card anywhere will find Free & Public an unexpectedly entertaining story about a city that surprised itself by building a world-class library.

FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER COPY (4 COPIES AVAILABLE).

  • 143 pages

  • 9 x 12

  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 978-1882203-918

  • Copyright 2003

By John Fleischman

For outsiders, the question is simple: Why on earth in Cincinnati? (The local question is, of course, Please?) The answer is in this book, a colorful walk through one hundred and fifty years at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, an institution ahead of its time in a city always ahead with its ambitions.

The Library was authorized in 1853 an opened a public reading room in 1856. That incredibly early start put the Library in Cincinnati well ahead and it has stayed ahead, playing in the public library big leagues right into the 21st century.

In 2000, America’s 52nd largest county had the third busiest public library system and the second largest collection in the nation. Anyone who has ever held a library card anywhere will find Free & Public an unexpectedly entertaining story about a city that surprised itself by building a world-class library.