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The Switzer Library is home to the Georgia Room a genealogical and local history special collection. The Georgia Room was founded in 1970 through the generous bequest of Miss Virginia Vanstone Crosby in memory of her father, Charles Mayo Crosby. [44] Vinings Library Vinings, Georgia: 1990: 4290 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30339
The organization changed its name to the Georgia Library Association at its first business meeting. GLAs first president was Anne Wallace, elected at the organization's first meeting May 31, 1897, in Atlanta, Georgia. [2] The Georgia Library Association was open only to White librarians until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [3]
The library viewed from within the museum. Early in his administration, Carter indicated interest in having his presidential library be built in Georgia. [5] The site chosen was in the Poncey–Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, on land that had been acquired by the state of Georgia Department of Transportation, for an interchange between two redundant highways that were cancelled by Carter ...
The Southeast Atlanta library will replace three small branch libraries. In the original Library Facility Master Plan $34 million was allocated to fully restore and upgrade the site. In the final referendum, however, $84 million was provided for the construction of a new 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m 2) central library. Finally, the Auburn ...
An idea for a library in Jonesboro was started in 1941 by the Jonesboro Women's Club. The collection at this time was only 200 books which were housed in the Jones Brothers Department Store on South Main Street. [4] In 1960 this small location had grown and joined the Flint River Regional Library System in Griffin. By joining this consortium ...
The first public library in the county was opened in 1907, in Lithonia.In 1925 a larger public library was founded in Decatur, the county seat of DeKalb County.In 1952 branches of the Decatur Library were established in Brookhaven and Doraville, and the Decatur Library was renamed the Decatur-DeKalb Library. [9]
Hotel Clermont is a fairly unassuming building (so much so that my Uber driver passed it twice) along the very traffic-heavy Ponce de Leon Avenue in downtown Atlanta.. It was built in 1924, fell ...
[2] [3] [4] The library, constructed in 1982, is named for Robert Winship Woodruff, former CEO of the Coca Cola Company. [5] In 2010, the library completed a $16.2 million renovation, partly funded by donations from the Coca Cola Company. [6] [7] [8] The library is a member of ARCHE, Lyrasis, OCLC and the HBCU Library Alliance.