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Friends of Libraries groups do many different things. Many work towards public support of libraries, including government advocacy and spreading information about library services. [3] Other groups help provide resources and financial support. [6] A 1977-78 survey found that most Friends groups were supporting public libraries. [7]
The El Paso Public Library is the longest continuously active public library system in Texas. [2] It was founded by Mary Irene Stanton, an El Paso area teacher. [3] Stanton "single-handedly becomes founder of the El Paso Public Library" when in 1894, she donated her personal collection of 1,000 books for a boy's Reading Club which was housed in a room in the Sheldon Building. [4]
Upon hearing the news, the local library collective, EPAL (El Paso Area Libraries) met to organize a library support rally. They used the ALA (American Library Association) “Save America’s Libraries” toolkit and followed the model rally agenda to plan the event. [91] The rally was held in the Fabens Middle School cafeteria.
Dionne Mack (born 1973), [1] briefly known as Dionne Mack-Harvin, is an American librarian and the city manager of the city of El Paso, Texas since August 2024. [2]. She was the executive director of the Brooklyn Public Library from 2007 to 2011 and the first African-American woman to head a major library system in the state of the New York. [1]
El Paso attorney Sergio Saldivar on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, at the Law Offices of Sergio Saldivar in El Paso, Texas. Commissioners Court Precinct 1: Jackie Arroyo Butler, Pete Faraone
Alabama's created legislation for a tax-supported State Law Library available to legislators on January 19, 1828. [3]: 12 Alabama didn't create a separate agency for funding and administering public libraries until 1959 and did not create a tax-supported system serving every county until 1974.
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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).