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2. Enoch Pratt Free Library - Wikipedia

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   The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland.Its Central Library is located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded by West Franklin Street (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, West Mulberry Street (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue ...

3. Joseph L. Wheeler - Wikipedia

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   He was director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland from 1926 to 1945. In Baltimore, he transformed many of the library's services including increasing the library's holdings of publications related to business, science and fine arts, and placing reference books on open shelves so the public could help themselves to ...

4. Carla Hayden - Wikipedia

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   The outreach program she began at the Enoch Pratt Free Library included "an after school center for Baltimore teens offering homework assistance and college and career counseling." Because of this, Hayden received Library Journal 's Librarian of the Year Award in 1995. She is the first African American to have received this award. [36]

5. Enoch Pratt - Wikipedia

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   Famous Scottish-born steel industrialist, millionaire, and noted philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) said that "Pratt was my guide and inspiration" remembering the time of several days that he spent in Baltimore at Pratt's house on West Monument Street, touring the new Free Library and conversing with Pratt and his employees and even the ...

6. List of Carnegie libraries in Maryland - Wikipedia

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   Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie ...

7. Deborah D. Taylor - Wikipedia

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   Deborah D. Taylor is a librarian and coordinator of school and student services at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2015, she received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. [1] Taylor received her Bachelor of Arts and master's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. [2]

8. Pratt Institute Libraries - Wikipedia

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   The library at Pratt Institute opened in 1888 in the Main Building on Pratt's campus in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. [4] [5] The library moved into a new building located on Ryerson Street in May 1896. [3] Originally called the Pratt Institute Free Library, it was open to anyone who lived or worked in Brooklyn. [2]

9. Marcia Croker Noyes - Wikipedia

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   Friends from the Enoch Pratt Free Library were hired to help catalogue in the evenings at a rate of 25¢ an hour. Due to budgetary constraints, Noyes was only able to hire one full-time assistant, Gustave Orville Caution, during the first ten years of her employment . [3] In 1904, the library was reorganized, and Noyes assumed the role of ...