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2. Donald Oehlerts, Books and Blueprints: Building America’s Public Libraries (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991): 62.
3. David Weinberger, “Library as Platform,” Library Journal (September 4, 2012).
4. Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009 [1971])
5. Katie Gilbert, “What Is a Library?” Narratively (January 2, 2014).