Date of birth: 19 August 1856
Date of death: 21 July 1929
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A highly influential American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading. He was a public librarian for forty years. - [Wikipedia][1]


[1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/John_Cotton_Dana

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