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Modernlibraries may contain a wide range of materials, including manuscripts and pamphlets, posters, photographs, motion pictures, and videotapes, sound recordings, and computer databases in various forms.
In 1833 the first tax-supported library in the country opened at Peterborough, N.H. The AmericanLibrary Association was formed in 1876, and this organization spurred improvements in library methods and in the training of librarians.
Libraries in the United States and Great Britain benefited greatly from the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, who gave more than $65 million for public library buildings in the United States alone and strengthened local interest by making the grants contingent upon public support.
The ModernLibrary, a current division of Random House publishers, was founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright.
In 1950 it began publishing the ModernLibrary College Editions, a forerunner of their current series of paperback classics.
The Promethean bearer of enlightenment (known informally around the old ModernLibrary offices as the "dame running away from Bennett Cerf") was redesigned several times over the years, most notably by Rockwell Kent.
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