END NOTES
1.
Arthur Curley, "Funding for Public Libraries in the
1990's," Library Journal, 115 (1) (January 1990) : 65.
2.
Grace Bennett, Annual Library Report (1951), Fragment, "A
Progress Report," 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Middletown Thrall Library, Local History Room, Middletown, New York.
Jesse H. Shera, Foundations of the Public Library: The
Origins of the Public Library Movement in New England 1629-1855, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1949, p. V, 248.
Phyllis Dain, "Ambivalence and Paradox: The Social Bonds
of the Public Library," Library Journal, 100 (3) (February 1, 1975): 266.
This point that many public libraries have not kept good
records of their own history was discussed in Donald J. Sager's "Public Library History: Lost or Forgotten?" Public Libraries, 30 (May/June 1991): 139.
6.
A discussion of the different newspapers published in
Middletown and their publication histories is found in Franklin B. Williams, Middletown A Biography, Middletown, New York: Lawrence A. Toepp, 1928, pp. 175-181.
7.
E. H. Carr, What Is History? New York: Knopf, 1964, p.
35.
8.
Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History, New York: Knopf,
1981, p. 32.
9. Joh
John Calvin Colson, "The Writing of American Library
History 1876-1976," Library Trends, 25 (1) (July 1976): 19.
10.
Shera, p. 157.