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    The Library War Service was established by the American Library Association in 1917 to provide library services to American soldiers training in camps...
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    Services offered by a library are variously described as library services, information services, or the combination "library and information services"...
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  • World War II Library War Council, part of the Library War Service aimed to raise funds and solicit books and magazines British War Library, a library service...
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  • The United States Library War Council was founded in 1917 by the American Library Association as part of the Library War Service. Its aim was to raise...
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  • The British War Library service was a venture launched in 1914 to provide reading material to World War I British soldiers. It was one of the first examples...
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    The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de...
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  • World War I. Toward the end of World War I, when the United States entered the conflict, hundreds of American libraries launched the Library War Service, a...
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  • association. During World War I the ALA Executive Board initiated by Walter Lewis Brown established the Library War Service Committee to supply books...
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    Public Library from 1916 to 1926. In 1917, Wheeler took a leave of absence from Youngstown Public Library to work in the Library War Service managing...
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    [citation needed] The External Services broadcast propaganda during the Second World War, on the German-language service Londoner Rundfunk [de] especially...
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