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The building contains 20,000 square feet of library program with a 5,000-square-foot community multipurpose room and library space that is four times the size included in the interior program. [2] The 2,400-square-metre complex includes an expansive multi-purpose room for meetings, exhibitions, and public gatherings. [5]
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
The library contains over 300,000 volumes, including the New York Public Library's central collection of Hispanic/Latino and Puerto Rican heritage works. The building is designed for the digital technology and social/civic functions as well as for books; it contains reading areas, a 150-person auditorium, computer rooms, staff offices, conference rooms, and a public gallery/gathering area ...
Nov. 19—The Abilene City Commission met Nov. 13 for its first meeting of the month. The commission approved a bid for a waterline replacement project and decided to take no action on preventing ...
EAU CLAIRE — Several area libraries have received millions in state dollars to replace or renovate their aging facilities. The Cadott library will receive $3.75 million, the Fall Creek library ...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development ...
Funding also became a concern, particularly in 1950 when the New City School was no longer able to provide space or finances for the library. With grants and public donations, including a donation of land by the New City Fire Department, the library broke ground on a free-standing building on May 3, 1952. The library opened to the public on ...
The Grosse Pointe Public Library was established in 1929 by the school district, and spent over two decades moving from space to space. In 1951, it was decided to construct a permanent space for the library, funded in large part by local businessman Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Ferry's son, W. Hawkins Ferry, had studied architecture under Marcel Breuer at Harvard University, and the Ferry family had ...