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After the City of Richmond's finance committee rejected the first Carnegie offer in 1901, Carnegie offered to donate $100,000 to the city of Richmond, Virginia, for a public library. The city council had to furnish a site for the building and guarantee that $10,000 in municipal funds would be budgeted for the library each year.
The Patrick Henry Building is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia.Formerly designated simply as the Old State Library or the Virginia State Library and Archives and Virginia Supreme Court, it was renovated, then rededicated and renamed for the Founding Father and former Virginia Governor Patrick Henry on June 13, 2005.
Richmond Public Library may refer to: Richmond Public Library (Canada), a public library in Richmond, British Columbia; Richmond Public Library (United States), a ...
The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and is located at 800 East Broad Street, two blocks from the Virginia State Capitol building.
Most prominent among those is the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, the pattern for the Richmond Library. [2] Like the Crane Library, today designated a National Historic Landmark, the Richmond Library employs a similar face of two-toned sandstone in a random ashlar pattern with a battered foundation, with a steep gabled roof. The entrance ...
The headquarters for the library system is the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library, located in Augusta. The library system is a member of Public Information Network for Electronic Services , or PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that serves 300 member libraries covering 146 counties of Georgia. [ 2 ]
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Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).