overt operations alternative library typologies
Name: Lars Kvalo’s General Store Date(s): 1939-40 Location: Minnesota Description: As part of the WPA program, the state of Minnesota established the ‘Minnesota Demonstration.’ The goal of the project included creating station libraries throughout the state; this decentralized library network encouraged the insertion of libraries in barbershops, lumber stores, and fire stations.
Paul Dickson, The Library in America: A Celebration in Words and Pictures (New York: Facts on File Publications, 1986), 104.
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