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The Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, formerly the Silver Spring Library, is part of the Montgomery County Public Libraries System. It opened to the public in 1931 and is currently located at 900 Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. The library is named for Charles E. McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who had lived in Montgomery County.
In 1945 the Maryland Legislature passed the State Library Law which provided matching state funds for County library systems, based on a County's population. [5] On May 31, 1950, the Montgomery County Council passed the County Library Law of 1950, which created a Department of Public Libraries administered by a professional librarian and ...
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
The library system is part of the Maryland Consolidated Library System, which provides that any person who is a resident of the State of Maryland may obtain a library card at no charge at any county library or Baltimore City. This privilege is also available to non-residents who work for an employer in Maryland or pay property taxes there.
Poolesville Library, also known as Maggie Nightingale Library, is northwest of Seneca in Poolesville. [51] Potomac Library, constructed in 1985 by the county, is located east of Seneca in Potomac. [52] Priddy Library is part of the University of Maryland Libraries system and is located at the Universities at Shady Grove in North Potomac. [53]
The Maryland State Library Agency is the official state library agency of Maryland located in Baltimore, Maryland. [3] It is governed by the twelve-member Maryland State Library Board. [4] They administer state and federal funds supporting Maryland's twenty-four public library systems.
At about 15,000 square feet, the new Middletown facility on East Green Street will be about 500% larger than the current library of about 2,500 square feet on Prospect Street, Cambrel wrote. Show ...
The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington D.C.–Baltimore area. [citation needed] The system includes eight libraries: six are located on the College Park campus, while the Severn Library, an off-site storage facility, is located just outside campus, and the Priddy Library is located on the University System of Maryland satellite campus in ...