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Ep. 008 - The Great Book Scare

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- Smithsonian Magazine
  When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases
  "The great book scare" created a panic that you could catch an infection just by lending from the library
- "Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print" by Annika Mann. An entire book all about the period from 1880-1920 where books were considered pestilent, as discussed in the podcast episode, but also at other times during history where books have become concerning due to illness.
- NPR.org
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  Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in the world. Coming as a dirt poor kid from Scotland to the U.S., by the 1880s he'd built an empire in steel - and then gave it all away: $60 million to fund a system of 1,689 public libraries across the country.
- Wikipedia
  Carnegie library - Wikipedia
  A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji.
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