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Fort Myers Regional Library provides access to a large collection of fiction and non-fiction materials. The location offers public computers, Wi-Fi access, meeting and study rooms, printing, and scanning. The library is a Florida State Publications Depository Library, housing and providing public access to publications from Florida state ...
The West Florida Public Library System is an organization of libraries that serve the Pensacola, Florida area with branch libraries in Escambia County, Florida. The Library System currently has approximately 360,000 books, 36,000 audio resources, and 14,000 video resources in circulation.
Sarasota County residents have access to Book-By-Mail, a convenient and free service to send library materials through the U.S. Postal Service to people who are unable to access the library collection due to temporary or long-term physical or visual disability, [3] and Pinellas Talking Book Library. Through the latter, "residents of all ages ...
Each class is designed to meet the needs of local citizens within their area. The library also offers Books-By-Mail, a Deaf Resource Center, and Talking Books services to those in special populations. [39] Book Club in a Bag is another service offered which facilitates the selection of titles (English and Spanish) for local book club meetings. [40]
The Library first began as a Free Reading Room for the City of West Palm Beach. The Free Reading Room was located in the city’s first church, the Union Congregational Church on the corner of Datura and Olive Streets. The reading room began in 1895 when Reverend Asbury Caldwell began collecting books for a reading club.
The Peter H. Armacost Library, designed by Ayers Saint Gross, houses nearly 250,000 volumes and the Eckerd College Special Collections. [3]The institution now known as Eckerd College was founded as Florida Presbyterian College in 1958 as part of national growth in post-secondary education driven by GIs entering college after returning from World War II and later by the baby boom.
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USF Fort Myers opened in 1982 and closed in 1997 with the opening of Florida Gulf Coast University. [57] [58] The Sarasota institution was originally a private college called New College which sold itself to USF in 1975 to pay off debt, and became New College of the University of South Florida. [59]