"The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant."
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People from New York (state)Editors from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesPeople from BostonLibrarians from the United States
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"The Relation of the State to the Public Library", (1889)
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Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.
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