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NYPL’s Jennie Maas Flexner: The Reader’s Champion

by Lynn Lobash, Manager of Reader Services
March 1, 2021

Flexner was an early advocate of the library concept of a reader-centered philosophy and believed that reading the right book at the right time will foster a sense of satisfaction and joy in the reader.

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