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The building contains 20,000 square feet of library program with a 5,000-square-foot community multipurpose room and library space that is four times the size included in the interior program. [2] The 2,400-square-metre complex includes an expansive multi-purpose room for meetings, exhibitions, and public gatherings. [ 5 ]
The library was officially launched on June 19, 1936, in response to a plan by the New York State Education Department to provide citizens of rural areas with library service. It began as a room in the New City School, opening one afternoon a week, but as the book collection of the library increased, space quickly became a concern.
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
Mar. 27—ROYAL CITY — The new Royal City Public Library marked another milestone this month, as the concrete was poured March 14. "This means we have done grade work, footing and foundation ...
The library contains over 300,000 volumes, including the New York Public Library's central collection of Hispanic/Latino and Puerto Rican heritage works. The building is designed for the digital technology and social/civic functions as well as for books; it contains reading areas, a 150-person auditorium, computer rooms, staff offices, conference rooms, and a public gallery/gathering area ...
At the public celebration, the program included family entertainment, a historic lecture on the Carnegie libraries, an information fair featuring the Los Angeles Public Library and various community organizations, a music performance by students from nearby Lockwood Avenue Elementary School, and a formal program featuring speeches by L.A. City ...
At this point, the Woman’s Club of Plant City began to make their own plans for a library: “The club plans to develop, from a small start, a library which will eventually be the pride of Plant City.” [1] Bruton noted that “nearly forty years passed before the City…was persuaded to build a library.” [1] The Woman’s Club began operating a library in their club room in 1927 (Oberlin).
The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year ...