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John Cotton Dana

A highly influential American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading. He was a public librarian for forty years. - Wikipedia

American librarian and museum director (1856-1929)

Born	19 August 1856
Died	21 July 1929

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A library primer

by John Cotton Dana
First published in 1899
33 editions, 7 ebooks
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Libraries: addresses and essays

by John Cotton Dana
First published in 1916
10 editions, 2 ebooks
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Notes on bookbinding for libraries

by John Cotton Dana
First published in 1906
10 editions, 3 ebooks
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The gloom of the museum

by John Cotton Dana
First published in 1917
9 editions, 3 ebooks
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News from France: or, A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin, preceded by the Surrender of the library (now newly translated)

by Gabriel Naudé and John Cotton Dana First published in 1907
8 editions, 1 ebook
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Literature of libraries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

by John Cotton Dana and Henry Watson Kent
First published in 1906
7 editions, 2 ebooks
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American Art, how it Can be Made to Flourish

by John Cotton Dana
First published in 1914
5 editions, 2 ebooks
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Gloom of the Museum

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1917
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A plan for a new museum, the kind of museum it will profit a city to maintain

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1920
3 editions, 1 ebook
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On buying and using print, practical suggestions from a librarian to the business man

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1921
3 editions, 1 ebook
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The pleasant art of getting your own library

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1913
3 editions, 1 ebook
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Suggestions

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1921
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Modern American Library economy as illustrated by the Newark, N. J., Free public library

by John Cotton Dana
First published in 1908
3 editions, 2 ebooks
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Horace: The Epistles, Book I-Ii. the Art of Poetry. Appendix, Containing Translations of Various Odes, Etc

by Horace, Charles Loomis Dana, and John Cotton Dana First published in 1827
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The picture collection.

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1928
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The color-and-position method for filing pamphlets, books, maps, documents, letters and other material

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1918
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The Pomfret library, Vermont, in the Abbott memorial library building ...

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1911
2 editions, 1 ebook
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Day in a Colonial Home

by Della R. Prescott and John Cotton Dana First published in 1981
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State of Colorado: Libraries: their establishment and management. Library laws of Colorado

by Grace Espy Patton, John Cotton Dana, Colorado. Department of Public Instructi..., and Colorado First published in 1897
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Library printing.

by John Cotton Dana First published in 1906
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American librarian and museum director (1856-1929)

Born	19 August 1856
Died	21 July 1929

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OLID: OL30286A
GoodReads: 1334164
ISNI: 0000000121406163
Library of Congress Names: n50037772
Project Gutenberg: 5999
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): SBLV280416
VIAF: 77235035
Wikidata: Q3595520
Inventaire.io: wd:Q3595520

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