{"id":3976,"date":"2015-08-28T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/22\/courtney-tollison-hartness-in-praise-of-the-public-library\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:48:48","slug":"courtney-tollison-hartness-in-praise-of-the-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/courtney-tollison-hartness-in-praise-of-the-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Tollison Hartness: in praise of the public library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Courtney-Tollison-Hartness-cropped-feature1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18807 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Courtney-Tollison-Hartness-cropped-feature1-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Courtney Tollison Hartness cropped feature\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/244;\" \/><\/a>Despite our dependence on the Internet for quick fact checking and other research, Furman History Professor Courtney Tollison Hartness, Ph.D., says brick-and-mortar libraries \u201cdeserve our unflagging support.\u201d In a piece she wrote for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvillejournal.com\/opinions\/4752-ideals-enlightenment-imagination-look-them-up-at-the-library.html\">Greenville Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Hartness offers a brief history of libraries in the United States including those in Greenville\u2019s storied past. She reminisces about the importance of the public library in her formative years, and how relevant libraries continue to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite our dependence on the Internet for quick fact checking and other research, Furman History Professor Courtney Tollison Hartness, Ph.D., says brick-and-mortar libraries \u201cdeserve our unflagging support.\u201d In a piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}