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In 2013, the Institute was designated a Literary Landmark by New Jersey's Center for the Book in the National Registry of the Library of Congress. [2] It is the fifth place in New Jersey to be given this designation, after the Newark Public Library , Paterson Public Library , the Walt Whitman House and the Joyce Kilmer Tree, which is located at ...
When the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) was founded in 1890, upwards of fifty-seven public libraries were established and operating statewide. In 1900, New Jersey state legislature created the Public Library Commission (PLC) as a method to provide support for public libraries. [25]
The Pietro and Maria Botto House is one of the cultural institutions contributing to the New Jersey Digital Highway.. The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a collaborative initiative led by cultural heritage institutions—including libraries, museums, archives, state agencies and other organizations—in New Jersey to provide online access to cultural and historical information about the ...
The Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS, pronounced "buckles") is a consortium of public libraries in the four northeastern New Jersey Gateway Region counties of Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, and Essex.
County library systems in New Jersey (6 P) Pages in category "Public libraries in New Jersey" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The library was temporarily housed in the old YMCA building on South Street. Meanwhile, the trustees used insurance and savings to buy land at the corner of Miller Road and South Street, with the intention of erecting a new library building. In 1916, retired textile merchant Grinnell Willis paid the entire cost of a new, fireproof building. He ...
The Paterson Public Library in New Jersey recently received a copy of Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth, which was originally published in 1910.
They soon incorporated in order “to discover, procure, preserve and perpetuate whatever relates to the history of Monmouth County.” In 1931, the present Museum and Library, a brick Georgian-style building designed by architect J. Hallam Conover, was constructed in Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The enthusiasm ...