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Place of Learning, Place of Dreams: A History of the Seattle Public Library.(Book Review)

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| March 22, 2005 | Wertheimer, Andrew B. | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Place of Learning, Place of Dreams: A History of the Seattle Public Library. By John Douglas Marshall. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. vii, 192 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-295-98347-7.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalist John Douglas Marshall, like many Seattleites, is obviously proud of his public library and how it developed from a frontier private reading room in 1891. He seems even prouder of its new postmodern central branch, the vision of award-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. Marshall's book does a passable job of relating that story in his well-illustrated work, Place of Learning, Place of Dreams. Three of the book's eleven chapters deal with the…

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