‎In the summers between 1994 and 2015 Robert Dawson traveled 48 states and DC, preserving in a photographic record 526 of the 16,536 public libraries that serve this country in any and all ways imaginable at every scale with all means available.

I particularly like the comments left on the LofC site: people in this country love their libraries!

Mr. Dawson called his photographic collection "The Public Library: An American Commons". 

His book titled, "The American Library, A Photographic Essay" with a foreword by Bill Moyers, is published by Princeton Architectural Press. In the future, this historic work will be available for all to see on the Library of Congress' website.

‎http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/06/lcm-diversity-of-the-american-library/?utm_content=bufferf76e3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Here is the link to Robert Dawson's site showing more of his extraordinary photographs and large scale projects.

http://www.robertdawson.com/portfolio.html?folio=Projects