“The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds.”

— Melvil Dewey

"Field and Future of Traveling Libraries". Home Education Department. Bulletin. State University of New York (1901), (40).

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