America's Public Libraries

National Public Radio interviewed Robert Dawson about his new book The Public Library: A Photographic Essay, the result of almost twenty years of capturing the variety of buildings that allowed access to a wider world of books and our relationships with them.

Here's a quote:

"Oftentimes libraries reflect what it is about the community that's unique, that's local, that is a place to maybe house civic memory. . ."

You can listen to the interview and find more information at the National Public Radio site.