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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
their reading, led quite naturally to the estab-
lishment of printing houses for the blind and
the development of a literature for them.
The creation of a special literature led the
public libraries to consider possibilities for
its dissemination.
As early as 1868 the Boston Public
Library set aside books in raised print in a
separate division of the library. Philadel-
phia followed suit in 1882, and with these
two cities as pioneers, the establishment of
special libraries for the bhnd spread from
city to city across the continent. The larger
cities — Boston, Worcester, Providence,
Hartford, New Haven, New York, Brook-
lyn, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Richmond, Birmingham, Rochester, Buffalo,
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Grand
Rapids, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louis-
ville, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis,
Kansas City, Seattle, Spokane, Portland,
San Francisco, Los Angeles—all have spe-
cial libraries and reading rooms for the blind.
The smaller cities have been no less active;
among them may be mentioned Lynn and
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