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The El Paso Public Library is the longest continuously active public library system in Texas. [2] It was founded by Mary Irene Stanton, an El Paso area teacher. [3] Stanton "single-handedly becomes founder of the El Paso Public Library" when in 1894, she donated her personal collection of 1,000 books for a boy's Reading Club which was housed in a room in the Sheldon Building. [4]
Friends of Libraries groups do many different things. Many work towards public support of libraries, including government advocacy and spreading information about library services. [3] Other groups help provide resources and financial support. [6] A 1977-78 survey found that most Friends groups were supporting public libraries. [7]
Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is a nationally recognized system of public libraries serving a population of more than 650,000 across 2,070 square miles in El Paso County, Colorado. Pikes Peak Library District has resources for children, teens, adults, and seniors.
The Citizens for Findlay-Hancock County Public Library raised $8,575 in contributions from the Friends of the Library and local and non-local individuals to campaign for the levy. [88] Campaign publicity included yard signs, banners, radio and newspaper ads, flyers, postcards, bookmarks, and door hangers advocating that locals vote yes on the ...
The historic Southwest Trail, a path used by most travelers entering Arkansas early in the 1800s, entered El Paso on today's Arkansas Highway 5 from Floyd, then headed to Gibson via Arkansas Highway 89, Tate's Mill Road and Batesville Pike Road. By the 1830s more than 80 percent of the Arkansas territory's population had entered through the ...
Voters in 41 states will take policymaking into their own hands as they decide the fate of 146 ballot measures on topics as diverse as abortion rights, election laws, workers' rights and even drug ...
From 1991 to 1995, she was the Director of the Oak Park Public Library. [2]Brey-Casiano served as executive director of the El Paso Public Library.In 2001, Brey-Casiano stood up against the Texas Ranger, mayor of El Paso, Texas, a lawyer named Francisco Domínguez, and the El Paso police for the purpose of protecting intellectual freedom and privacy of library users.
Mary Irene Stanton (February 11, 1862 – August 26, 1946) was an American teacher and the founder of the El Paso Public Library.She was born in Georgia and taught for many years before the founding of the library, and continued to teach after leaving her position as president of the El Paso Public Library Association.