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After the City of Richmond's finance committee rejected the first Carnegie offer in 1901, Carnegie offered to donate $100,000 to the city of Richmond, Virginia, for a public library. The city council had to furnish a site for the building and guarantee that $10,000 in municipal funds would be budgeted for the library each year.
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The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and is located at 800 East Broad Street, two blocks from the Virginia State Capitol building.
By December 1971, the Richmond Hill Public Library had leased a portable classroom at Lake Wilcox Public School, establishing the Wildwood Branch of the library. [4] A local man donated land for the construction of a fire station and the community's first permanent library, and on 22 June 1975, the Charles Connor Memorial Branch was opened and ...
The library has won numerous awards, including the John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award [6] in 2008 for its "Ralphy" library card for kids. In September 2018, Richmond Public Library launched a book dispensing machine in the Hamilton Community Centre, allowing nearby residents to access the library's collection. [ 7 ]
Richmond Memorial Library, Batavia, New York Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Richmond Public Library .
The headquarters for the library system is the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library, located in Augusta. The library system is a member of Public Information Network for Electronic Services, or PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that serves 300 member libraries covering 146 counties of Georgia. [2]