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The Lafayette Municipal Library was created by the Louisiana state government in 1942. On August 6, 1946, its doors officially opened for public use. By 1953, the parish library was expanded to have 10 branch locations, including a bookmobile program. On January 29, 1973, doors opened to the new location of the main library branch in downtown ...
The Lafayette Public Library Committee met on Monday, Nov. 18 to address facility updates, financial reports and book discards.
The new flagship library of the system is the new East Bank Regional, opened in 1997 with 100,000 feet of public space and a collection of 300,000 volumes. The Marrero Branch, in a rented building on the west bank and which was recommended for closing by the 1983 library study, closed in 1997.
The Eastern Regional Libraries service was founded by the former Shire of Knox in 1965 and was known as the Regional Library Service. In 1968, an agreement was made between the former Shire of Knox and the former City of Ringwood to provide library services to both municipalities, with the service renamed to the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Library Service (EMRLS).
The Rossville Public Library was organized in 1942 as a product of the Works Progress Administration. Upon completion of the library, neighboring LaFayette, Georgia's library board approached the library in Rossville to request a regional library system be constructed between the two branches. This was the first iteration of the Cherokee ...
Louisiana: Baton Rouge: October 24, 2011 120 [123] Lafayette: November 17, 2011 12 [124] Demonstration at federal courthouse. "The 'Occupy Lafayette' event was a low-key affair: No slogans were chanted or epithets hurled. In fact, it didn't even arouse the curiousity of security officials at the courthouse," said local media. New Orleans [125 ...
East Jefferson General Hospital - Metairie; Ochsner Medical Center - Jefferson, Louisiana; Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner (formerly Kenner Regional Medical Center) - Kenner; Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank (formerly Meadowcrest Hospital) - Gretna; Tulane–Lakeside Hospital - Metairie; West Jefferson Medical Center - Marrero
Since 1986, the library has been funded by a 10-year dedicated property tax. This tax, funded at 11.1 mills, provides funding for all library operations, improvements, and salaries. While the tax was lowered to 10.78 mills in the early 2000s, it was raised back to 11.1 mills in 2015. [ 5 ]