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Howard County Library System (HCLS), established in 1940, is a public library system located in central Maryland. HCLS delivers equal opportunity in education to students of all ages in Howard County, Maryland. Charles E. Miller Branch - Ellicott City.
In 2013 Howard County Library System was selected as the Library of the Year by Library Journal [58] and cited by editor-at-large, John N. Berry, as "a 21st-century library model, with a position, doctrine, purpose, and curriculum worthy of study and consideration by every library in America, if not the world." In 2015 the Howard County Library ...
Founders Library. / 38.922306; -77.019717. The Founders Library in Washington, D.C. is the main library at Howard University. The building, named The Founders Library in honor of the 17 men who founded Howard University, serves as the iconic symbol of the university. Designed by architect Albert Irvin Cassell, construction began in 1937 during ...
Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark. The 256-acre (1.04 km 2 ; 0.400 sq mi) campus, often referred to as "The Mecca", is in northwest Washington, D. C. [ 55 ] Major improvements, additions and changes occurred at the school in the aftermath of World War I .
The Moorland–Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) in Washington, D.C., is located on the campus of Howard University on the first and ground floors of Founders Library. The MSRC is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa ...
Hammond, Beeby and Babka. The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 S. State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it ...
One of the first known photographs of a tornado is an image of the 1884 Howard, South Dakota tornado. [11] The first public library in Dakota Territory was the Howard Public Library, chartered in 1886. [12] Howard became the first municipality in South Dakota to own and operate its own wind turbines in 2001. [13]
Headquarters. Boston, Massachusetts, US. Executive director. John Bracken. Website. dp.la. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two-and-a-half years of development.