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The Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration (ABCA) is an independent adjudicatory body of the District of Columbia, in the United States.It was formerly known by other names, including Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration.
The DC Council routinely has Performance Oversight and Budget hearings for the D.C. libraries annually. The DCPL has its own small police force, the District of Columbia Public Library Police. The Library Police's duties and mission is similar to District of Columbia Protective Services Division: to protect government property, staff, and the ...
In 1988, the land was turned over to District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL). The new library opened on July 29, 1990 with a collection of 200,000 books, tapes, records, CDs and magazines. [ 1 ] The cost of its construction was $3.3 million, and it was designed by the firm Bryant and Bryant.
In 1986, the library was named for Francis A. Gregory, a local public servant who had been the first black president of the DC Public Library Board of Trustees. [ 1 ] The new Francis A. Gregory Library was described in Architectural Record as a “shimmering pavilion.” [ 2 ] The building is a two-story, glass-sheathed box with an aluminum ...
A small library kiosk opened in the area in 1976, and a somewhat larger facility opened in 1984, [2] which was eventually replaced in 2009 by a new $878,000 library facility. [ 3 ] The notably small 4,900-square-foot library is located in a leased space in the Shops at Parkland strip mall .
The James Reardon-Anderson Library (formerly SFS-Q Library) offers online access to more than 2 million scholarly resources and an intercampus loans service with Georgetown's library services in Washington DC. There is also an interlibrary loan services agreement with other universities on the Education City campus and with Qatar University.
The Mount Pleasant Library was the third and last DC Neighborhood Library to be built with Carnegie funding. Andrew Carnegie had funded the construction of the Central Library and, at its dedication in 1903, he offered to finance branch buildings as they were needed. Congress was slow to authorize the acceptance of his offer.
The West End Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is located at 2301 L Street NW. [ 1 ] The library opened in 1967 at 1101 24th Street NW and was the city's first public library branch to offer air conditioning .