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The Queens Public Library, also known as the Queens Library and Queens Borough Public Library, is one of three separate and independent public library systems in New York City. The other two are the New York Public Library (serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island), and the Brooklyn Library (serving Brooklyn). [1]
The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year ...
This Page is for articles related to the Queens Library system, its history, and its archival collections. Pages in category "Queens Public Library" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The center is the Queens Borough Public Library system's largest facility. [3] With a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the center recruited specialists from the Exploratorium in San Francisco to design hands-on "discovery stations". [3]
Designed by Carrère & Hastings and completed in 1929, this was the final Carnegie building added to the New York Public Library system. 34: Kingsbridge 3041 Kingsbridge Ave. Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened May 19, 1905. This branch outgrew its original building and closed in 1958.
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
Haym Salomon Square (geometrically a triangle), across from the Kew Gardens Hills branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, named for the Revolutionary War financier; Abe Wolfson Triangle, named for an environmental activist and one of the founders of the Queens Historical Society, is located along Kissena Boulevard near 75th Avenue.
Queens Borough Public Library, Poppenhusen Branch. May 30, 2000 121-23 14th Avenue ... part of the Queens Public Library system. [75] Queens General Court House ...