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The Kansas Center for the Book is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.The Kansas Center for the Book affiliated with the national Center for the Book in 1987 and was hosted and headquartered at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library from then until 2005, when it moved to the State Library of Kansas.
The K-State Libraries has entered a cooperative agreement with the University of Kansas to house bound volumes in a shared storage facility in Lawrence, Kansas. Hale Library, the largest building on the K-State campus, includes five floors and a basement. [4] As of 2018, it holds 1.5 items plus special collections and archives. [10]
Over the years, state library agencies played a major role in encouraging larger units of service to provide library resources. [2] The Library Services Act (1956) and the Library Services and Construction Act (1964) were keystones in the goal of providing library service throughout the nation.
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The following list of Carnegie libraries in Kansas provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Kansas, where 59 public libraries were built from 58 grants (totaling $874,996) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1900 to 1916. In addition, academic libraries were built at 7 institutions (totaling $195,500).
In collaboration with the Turner Recreation Commission, the Kansas City, KS School District 500, and the Wyandotte County Library Board, the library's newest branch, was opened in the Turner Recreation Center in 2008. It provides full library services to patrons in the southwest part of our community. [3] [4]
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The library was originally established as a subscription-based library in 1854, but changed to a free public library upon the donation of a new building by Andrew Carnegie in 1904. The Carnegie library was the main headquarters of the NEKLS and the main library in Lawrence until 1972 when a new modern library replaced it.