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The following list of Carnegie libraries in Alabama provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Alabama, where 14 public libraries were built from 14 grants (totaling $195,800) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1916. In addition, academic libraries were built at 5 institutions (totaling $94,040).
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
The library had a circulation of 1,915,548 in 2007, [1] making it the highest-circulating library in Alabama. [3] The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library received a federal grant from the Library Services and Technology Act in 2004 specifically to digitize photographs from the Library's Archives for inclusion in the Alabama Mosaic Project.
Pages in category "Carnegie libraries in Alabama" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Huntsville-Madison County Public Library; T.
Library service began on June 19, 1899, when a collection was started above McBryde's Drugstore on Dexter Avenue. Funds were gathered largely from a promotion by the Montgomery Advertiser. The Montgomery Library Association was by subscription membership of $1.00 Miss Laura M. Elmore was the city's first librarian.
Jemison-Carnegie Public Library c.1906 Mrs. Lou McElderry Jemison donated the land and $10,000 towards building Talladega's Public Library in 1906. The building was built by local contractor Robert S. West. The Jemison-Carnegie library is one of only four remaining Carnegie-affiliated buildings in Alabama. The building now serves as the home to ...
Eufaula Carnegie Library (1904), 217 North Eufaula: "Two story red brick with pressed yellow brick trim, a hipped roof 6' to 8’ overhanging caves, it has a wrought iron railing and lamp posts on either side of wide steps. Above entrance on second floor is a recessed balcony with four square columns, double glass doors with a leaded glass ...
The first Carnegie library, in Dunfermline, Scotland Carnegie Free Library of Braddock in Braddock, Pennsylvania, built in 1888, was the first Carnegie Library in the United States to open (1889) and the first of four to be fully endowed. Carnegie started erecting libraries in places with which he had personal associations. [1]