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A celebrated children's author on the value of libraries

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Shaun Usher
Apr 14, 2023
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A young girl picks books from the shelf in a public library near Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, 1947. (Photo by Rae Russel/Getty Images)

In the early months of 1971, Marguerite Hart, the first children’s librarian at the newly-opened public library in Troy, Michigan, set out on a mission to attract as many young people as possible to this invaluab…

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