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This location, destroyed by a hurricane in 1919, housed 1,200 volumes donated by the Key West Library Association. [3] This, however, was not Key West’s first library. According to historian Tom Hambright, a local 1858 diary entry mentions paying $5 a year in library dues, but that is the only record of a library prior to 1892. [4]
In 1892, the Key West Library Association was formally organized on April 8. This date makes the library system the oldest in South Florida. In September of 1892, the library opened in a room on the 2nd floor of Masonic Hall on Simonton Street with 1200 volumes. The library moved initially to the Albury Building at 417 Duval Street.
The Franklin D. Schurz Library collection includes nearly 600,000 print books, bound journals, and government publications; over 350,000 e-books, more than 7,700 audio/video recordings; the campus archives; and special collections such as the James Lewis Casaday Theatre Collection and the Christianson Lincoln Collection. The library subscribes ...
Born in South Bend on March 8, 1898, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Schurz, Franklin Schurz Sr. lived in the city for most of his life. After graduating from South Bend High School in 1916, Schurz earned a bachelor's degree and a master's of business administration degree from Harvard University, with a break for service in the U.S. Army ...
The WPA was federal program instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the New Deal during the Great Depression. The WPA was to have a major impact on libraries and a Florida Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) report from March 1935 showed that thirty-one library/museum projects had been approved in 1934.
Hours-long standoff ends with Florida Keys deputies tackling man holed up in his house. David Goodhue, Omar Rodríguez Ortiz. September 25, 2023 at 5:59 PM.
The library system, which serves Florida's twelve public universities, is one of the largest in the world, with more than 18 million items. [2] Though each campus library is separate, they share a reciprocal borrowing agreement known as the Florida Distance Learning Initiative, signed on February 9, 1999.
The Brevard County Library System is a public library system in Brevard County, Florida that coordinates activities between its member public libraries, which collectively serve Brevard County. It is composed of 17 distinct branches stemming all the way from Mims to Micco, with the central administrative and largest of these libraries being the ...