Our Community, Our Library: Women, Schools, and Popular Culture in the Public Library Movement

Public Library History on the Lewis and Clark Trail

“…Women's groups continued to be the driving force in library creation through the 1930s. Once libraries were up and running, their administration by city officials tended to move them into the control of men and male politicians (Valentine 2005). This trend toward centralized, generally male control was further reinforced with the funding of Carnegie libraries around the country.…”