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Library City or town Image Date granted Grant amount Location Notes; 1: Phoenix: Phoenix: Apr 26, 1902: $25,000 1101 W Washington St. Closed after serving as the Phoenix Public Library from 1908 to 1953. Now the Carnegie Center, a multi-service center which includes the Arizona State Library.
At this time, the Phoenix Public Library was established, with 1350 volumes. [2] Since 1899 the Library Association had been unsuccessfully attempting to secure a grant from Andrew Carnegie, and in December 1901 the Phoenix Woman's Club joined the campaign. Some progress was made in March 1902 when the city agreed to put up the required 10% of ...
The library is in Phoenix's City Council District 7. The Acacia Library opened in January 1969 and is 6,600 square feet (610 m 2). It replaced the earlier Desert Mission Library which opened in 1929, and was housed in a 2,400 square feet (220 m 2) building on 330 E. Eva Street. Acacia library is in District 3.
Although a handful of experimental systems existed as early as the 1960s, the first large-scale online catalogs were developed at Ohio State University in 1975 and the Dallas Public Library in 1978. [1] These and other early online catalog systems tended to closely reflect the card catalogs that they were intended to replace. [2]
The Burton Barr Central Library is the central library of Phoenix, Arizona. It is the flagship location and administrative headquarters for the Phoenix Public Library. It was named in honor of Burton Barr, the Republican Majority Leader in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1966 to 1986. [1] The library houses a collection of 1 million ...
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Another offshoot of this local funding is that Phoenix is the largest city in the United States to have at least two Interstate Highways, but no three-digit interstates. [ 4 ] As of 2005 [update] , the metropolitan area of Phoenix contains one of the nation's largest and fastest growing freeway systems, consisting of over 1,405 lane miles ...
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