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The "Women's Literary Club" established a fund for the first lending library in Lafayette in 1897. In 1932 the "Les Vingt Quatre Club" started a library for children during the Great Depression, which consisted of 50 volumes located in the Parish courthouse. [1] The Lafayette Municipal Library was created by the Louisiana state government in 1942.
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The Lafayette Public Library Committee met on Monday, Nov. 18 to address facility updates, financial reports and book discards.
Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6]
The Rossville Public Library was organized in 1942 as a product of the Works Progress Administration.Upon completion of the library, neighboring LaFayette, Georgia's library board approached the library in Rossville to request a regional library system be constructed between the two branches.
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The Lafayette Library and Learning Center was first proposed to the City of Lafayette at the end of 2003. The city voted to support the Library in January 2004. [4] In 2004 the membership of the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium was finalized and funding was pursued. In November 2004 the project was awarded $11.9M by the State of California.
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