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9) A hundred years later there were still almost no school libraries. Except for textbooks, spellers and readers, a bookcase of this size held all the books at the Herron Hill School. The building was being torn down, but the Board of Education said we could have the bookcase if I could get it out before the bulldozers reached it. They were at work even as I arrived at the school with the university truck close behind me.