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“One of the wider purposes of our museum is to make life better worth living- not by adding luster to riches and creating pleasurable reactions to the avowedly aesthetic, but by encouraging all to discover possibilities of agreeable emotions in the contemplation of things.”

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John Cotton Dana
John Cotton Dana

John Cotton Dana was an outstanding librarian, born on August 19, 1856, and died on July 21, 1929. He made significant contributions to library management, library education, and library services, and is regarded as a key figure in the American library profession. more

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