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The Central Library is the main branch of the Somerville, Massachusetts, public library system.It is an architecturally distinguished Renaissance Revival brick building designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton and was built in 1914 with funding assistance from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. [2]
Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. v.1-8 (1891–1898); v.9 (1899); v.10-18 (1900–1908); v.19-24 (1909–1914); v.25-27 (1915–1917); v.28-51 (1918–1940). Massachusetts Board of Free Public Library Commissioners. Free public library buildings of Massachusetts: a roll of honor, 1918. Wright & Potter printing co ...
The Cambridge Public Library: Its history, rules and regulations, list of officers, past and present, etc. Cambridge, Mass.: J. Wilson and son, 1891 "Cambridge." Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. 1891; Annual report. 1893-1904; Cambridge Public Library Bulletin v.1-v.2 (1896-1897) Main Library Expansion Project
The Massachusetts Library System was established in 2010. The system provides the following core services: consulting, training & professional development, cooperative purchasing, research & development, summer library program, and the following services as part of resource sharing: delivery, mediated interlibrary loan, journal article document delivery, MassCat, and electronic content ...
City library employees, who are unionized, picketed the Central Library in July, 2023 to protest inaction in construction of a crosswalk on State Street, where the Central branch is located. The pickets were a response to the death of librarian Gayle Ball, who was struck and killed by a driver while crossing the street to the employee parking lot.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Massachusetts provides information on Carnegie public libraries in Massachusetts, where 43 of them were built from 1901 to 1917, funded by 35 grants totaling $1,137,500 and awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Massachusetts Carnegie libraries were also built at five academic institutions ...
The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (est.1890) is a state agency that supports libraries in Massachusetts.The governor appoints each commissioner. The current board consists of librarians, academics and library trustees: Carol B. Caro, Mary Ann Cluggish, George T. Comeau, Mary Kronholm, Frank Murphy, Roland Ochsenbein, Janine Resnik, Gregory J. Shesko, and Alice M. Welch.
CW MARS has a professional staff for support of its integrated library system (ILS), network functions and the Digital Treasures library. As of 2021, CW MARS has more than 150 members and 175 branch locations, [2] [3] including public, academic, school, and special libraries. CW MARS offers a shared online computer system and combined ...