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The first recorded history of the Live Oak Public Libraries began in 1809 in Savannah. This first iteration was a subscription based library and is the first known library to exist in the state of Georgia. [5] The Savannah Public Library merged with the Georgia Historical Society in 1847, transferring its entire collection to the society.
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] Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books. [3]
The Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) is the state agency for libraries in the U.S. State of Georgia and a unit of the University System of Georgia.The service was initially founded in 1996 after the inception of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), and in July 2000 moved from the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (DTAE) to the Georgia Board of Regents and ...
The first library constructed in the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System was the Calhoun-Gordon library which was constructed through efforts of the Calhoun Woman's Club in 1904. [4] The next known library was constructed in 1921 in Dalton, Georgia as part of a service organized by The Dalton Woman's Club. [5]
History of a library in Columbus, Georgia reaches back to 1832 when the Columbus Enquirer stated, "We have three churches, a theatre, a book store, and a circulating library." [ 2 ] This is the earliest known library in the region until after the Civil War , in 1881, when the book and music clubs of the city merged to established the Columbus ...
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is an online public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia, United States.The collection includes more than a million digitized objects from more than 200 Georgia-related collections.
In 1998 a white paper was created exploring the feasibility of a statewide public library card for Georgia. As Georgia had consistently ranked among the lowest states in public library funding per capita it was agreed that a universal library card could be of great benefit to the residents of Georgia as long as the affiliated libraries were unified under one single integrated library system ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Georgia provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Georgia, where 24 public libraries were built from 20 grants (totaling $503,756) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1898 to 1914. In addition, academic libraries were built at five institutions (totaling ...