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The Carolina Room was first included as a separate part of public library service in Charlotte in 1956, when a new Main Library building opened. The previous Carnegie Free Library did not have an appropriate space to store rare documents and books. The Carolina Room made it possible to create an archive within the Main Library. [2]
Today the library's 20 locations include a Main Library, an innovative library for children and teens called ImaginOn, and a network of branch libraries throughout Mecklenburg County. Throughout the system, the library provides free and open access to its physical and electronic collections and information, as well as to its services for people ...
1903 – Charlotte Carnegie Public Library opens. [12]1905 Brevard Street Library for Negroes opens. Southern Power Company incorporated. [13]1908 – Union National Bank founded.
Library City or town Image Date granted [1] Grant amount [1] [2] Location Notes 1: Andrews Andrews: Apr 13, 1914: $5,000 Demolished in 1979 to make room for a new library. 2: Charlotte Charlotte: Mar 12, 1901: $40,000 310 N. Tryon St. Demolished in 1954. New library building opened on the same site in 1956 and a third in 1989. 3: Durham Durham ...
Allegra Westbrooks (Mar 16, 1921 – Apr 26, 2017) was a librarian in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the namesake for the Allegra Westbrooks Regional Library branch. [1] She first worked in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's segregated library branch, the Brevard Street Library for Negroes. [1] [2]
The Charlotte Masonic Temple was “one of the most dramatic buildings in downtown Charlotte,” the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission wrote in 1980. Completed in 1914 on South ...
The Billy Graham Library is a public museum and library documenting the life and ministry of Christian evangelist Billy Graham. The 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) complex [1] opened to the public on June 5, 2007. [2] The library is located on the grounds of the international headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte ...
CMS claimed neutrality on Banned Books Week. Then, it told librarians not to celebrate it. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools tells staff not to ‘explicitly’ celebrate Banned Books Week