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A library card from any library in the system is valid at all other libraries in the system and at most libraries in the state. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The county system serves 550,000 residents with a collection of 1,400,000 volumes. 2,150,000 items circulate per year.
Darby Free Library is a public library at 1001 Main Street in Darby Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Founded as the Darby Library Company in 1743 – just 12 years after Benjamin Franklin organized the Library Company of Philadelphia – it remains one of the oldest libraries in the United States.
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Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). 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 ...
The State Library of Pennsylvania is one of the largest research libraries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Until 1971 it was known as the Pennsylvania State Library. [1] The Office of Commonwealth Libraries, within the Pennsylvania Department of Education, has holdings in almost every area of human concern. It provides information and ...
Library is an unincorporated community in South Park Township, Pennsylvania along Brownsville Road. Originally known as Loafer's Hollow, it was renamed Library by its residents in honor of the first library in the area, founded by John Moore in 1833. [1] [2] South of Library, the original course of Brownsville Road continues as Pennsylvania ...
Van Pelt Library houses strong Area Studies collections in African, Japanese, Latin American, Chinese, Middle East, South Asia, and Judaica and Ancient Near East Studies. The Henry Charles Lea Library is located on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library. [1] The library holds the Weigle Information Commons, located on the west side of the 1st floor.
Thomas Beaver Free Library and Danville YMCA is a historic library and former YMCA located at Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania. The two attached buildings were built in 1886. They are 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, sandstone buildings with slate roofs in a combined Queen Anne / Second Empire style.