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The Armada Free Public Library was built in 1915 and is still being used to provide library service in the early 21st century. A number of fraternal organizations, a literary club, a science club, and the Armada Cornet Band were among the social outlets for villagers and township residents.
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 Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie ...
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures. [1] Some see the field as a subset of information history . [ 2 ]
Ruled Britannia is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove, [1] first published in hardcover by New American Library in 2002. [2]The book is set in the years 1597–1598, in an alternate universe where the Spanish Armada is successful in 1588.
A military library or base library, is a special library used by military personnel, their dependents, and civilian contractors located within or associated with a military base or defense organization. The primary duty of many military libraries is to assist with professional development, personal education, and leisure.
Garrett Mattingly (May 6, 1900 – December 18, 1962) was a professor of European history at Columbia University who specialized in early modern diplomatic history. In 1960 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet. ... The Armada (1959), a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly;