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The E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts was established in 1943 when original materials were presented to the Detroit Public Library by the Detroit Musicians Association. It is named after Emma Azalia Hackley, a notable African-American musician. This collection includes books, manuscripts, sheet music ...
The Detroit Public Library catalog can be viewed online. The Main Library houses the Burton Historical Collection (named for historian and donor Clarence M. Burton), the E. Azalia Hackley Collection (named for Emma Azalia Hackley), the Rare Book Collection, and the Ernie Harwell Sports Collection.
Public domain books in the United States: An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English. Literary Kicks: Ludwig von Mises Institute: Literature: Libertarianism and economics: Libertarian and Austrian School economics resources Ludwig von Mises Institute [40]
About 20% of Detroiters and Highland Park residents have a Detroit library card. The Detroit Public Library wants to get more people signed up.
A steering committee led the planning phase of the DPLA initiative from inception through its launch in 2013. Members of the project's Steering Committee included Harvard University's Robert Darnton, Maura Marx, and John Palfrey; Paul Courant of University of Michigan, Carla Hayden then of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library and subsequently the Librarian of Congress, Charles J. Henry of the ...
If the proposal before voters passes, the Detroit Public Library's renewal millage of 3.9943 mills would be exempt from certain tax captures — a major change that could add about $3.2 million ...
The digitized collection is available through the University of Michigan Library catalog, Mirlyn, the HathiTrust Digital Library, and Google Books. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are available. [1] [2] [3] According to the University of Michigan Library, they embarked on this partnership for a number of ...
The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books [3] and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online. The Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993.