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The opening day collection of 16,000 volumes fit in the Mason Street building, but it quickly became obvious that its quarters were inadequate. So in December 1854, the library's commissioners authorized the library to move to a new building on Boylston Street .
The original collection was established through donations from successive Patriarchs, Calouste Gulbenkian himself, the St. James Brotherhood, the Armenian diaspora, and non-Armenian supporters. On its opening day, it contained 25,037 volumes (14,518 in Armenian and 11,519 in other languages). [6]
The Carnegie Colored Library opened on August 14, 1914. Its inaugural librarian was Charles A.R. McDowell. Though its opening day collections consisted of only 3,000 volumes, the library immediately became an indispensable community institution among Savannah's African Americans.
The Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City.Located on Grand Army Plaza, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.
The collection was created in 1940 with a donation from Albert Berg in memory of his brother Henry, [82] and was formally endowed in 1941. [81] The initial collection comprised 3,500 books and pamphlets created by over 100 authors. [193] [81] An additional 15,000 works came from Owen D. Young, who donated his private collection to the library ...
The new library opened on March 25, 2007 and added many new or enhanced services, including over 50 public internet terminals, the 205-seat Camille Budarz Theater, an art gallery, and Westchester County's first radio frequency (RFID) circulation system. 1,000 visitors attended on the opening day, which include guided tours and a piano ...
The new Cedar Rapids Public Library opened to the public on August 24, 2013. More than 8,000 people attended opening day festivities. In the first year of service, the new library saw over 660,000 visits from the community, and over 100,000 people used the meeting room spaces, including the new 200-seat Whipple Auditorium.
The libraries hold a collection of nearly 12 million items, 260,000 rare or special books, 3 million e-books, 1.5 million audiovisual materials, 75,000 serials, 6 million microform holdings, and thousands of other digital resources, making it one of the largest and most diverse academic library systems in the world. [12]