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The Newport Public Library was chartered by the State of Rhode Island in 1869. The People’s Free Library opened their doors on May 4, 1870 with the combined collections of the Newport Free Library, Townsend’s curated collection, and the services of the Newport Free Library’s Librarian Elma M. Dame, as the People’s Free Library. [1]
The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
Reading Room, ca. 1910. The Newport Reading Room (also known as The Reading Room), founded in 1854, is a gentlemen's club located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Its primary building features an actual book reading room. The Spouting Rock Beach Association, which owns the famed Bailey's Beach, has been reported to own the ...
As California faces a staggering budget deficit, library card holders may soon lose the ability to check out free passes to more than 200 state parks, including popular destinations near Los Angeles.
Newport Library may refer to: Newport Central Library, city of Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom; Newport Public Library, Newport, Rhode Island, United States;
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It opened with 6500 books. [2] In November 1983, ... The library budget for 2008 is $160,550. Newport city contributes $99,000 of this amount. [4] Facilities
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