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It was formed in 1998 by an agreement between Ingham County and the City of Lansing. It consists of thirteen libraries and a mobile library. CADL is governed by a seven-member board, five of which are selected by Ingham County, and the remaining two are selected by the City of Lansing. CADL also participates with the Michigan eLibrary.
The Map Library, located on the 2nd floor of the east wing of the Main Library, houses a collection of general and thematic maps and atlases for most areas of the world. The collection consists of approximately 200,000 sheet maps and 4,000 atlases, gazetteers and other reference aids including wall maps, globes, CDs and Internet-accessible ...
By the 1890s the institution's Experiment Stations began issuing a broad range of influential publications in the natural sciences (including a beautifully illustrated Birds of Michigan in 1892) and as early as 1876, professor A.J. Cook commissioned a Lansing printer to issue his popular Manual of the Apiary, which ran through numerous editions ...
East Lansing added more people than any other city in the state last year, except for Detroit, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week. Detroit grew by 1,852 people, East Lansing ...
A second Lansing location opened at Eastwood Towne Center in 2002, [4] and closed on February 3, 2018, allegedly following a rent dispute. 6,000 used books from the Eastwood store's inventory were donated to the Friends of the East Lansing Public Library following its closure. [6] [7]
The Michigan Library Association is a United States professional association headquartered in Lansing, Michigan that advocates for libraries in Michigan on behalf of the state's residents. Founded in 1891 its members are more than 2,700 individuals and organizations from public, school, academic, cooperative, private and special libraries.
East Lansing is located on land that was an important junction of two major Native American groups: the Potawatomi and the Fox. [5] By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing.
The successor to Joint Issue was the Lansing Star, a local alternative paper that was published at first weekly and later biweekly and monthly until 1983, when it was succeeded by Lansing Beat, which survived until at least November 1986.