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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 Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York ...
Adams Street Library. 9 Adams Street. The branch opened on October 12, 2021, and was the first new branch opened in nearly 40 years. [2] Arlington Library. 203 Arlington Avenue. The branch was originally known as the East Branch and officially opened on November 7, 1906; it was renovated from 1950–52 and in 1980. [3] Bay Ridge Library.
Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904. 8. 58th Street Library. [6] 127 East 58th Street. Originally designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened May 10, 1907. The original building was demolished and replaced by a new branch in two floors of an office tower at 127 East 58th Street, which opened in 1969. 9.
The Broad Channel branch has been open since the summer of 1990–present. [2] 10: Broadway: 40-20 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11103 The Broadway branch first opened in 1906 at 37-19 Broadway Astoria, New York. It moved five subsequent times until it was relocated to 40-20 Broadway Astoria, on April 28, 1958, where it remains today. [2] 11: Cambria ...
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
The Detroit Public Library is the second largest library system in the U.S. state of Michigan by volumes held (after the University of Michigan Library) and the 12th-largest public library system in the United States. [2] It is composed of the Main Library on Woodward Avenue, which houses the library's administration offices, and 23 branch ...
The Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System is a public library system consisting of six branches serving the county of Richmond, Georgia,United States. 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 ...
Mid-Columbia Libraries is a library system in Eastern Washington. There were 250,500 people in its service area in 2018, [ 1 ] which spans the Tri-Cities metropolitan area except for Richland , which retains a city library: West Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco, and surrounding Benton , Franklin , and parts of Adams Counties are part of Mid-Columbia.