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This is a list of all public library systems in Georgia, United States, serviced under the Georgia Public Library Service. [1] Georgia has 62 library systems [2] consisting of 387 branches serving its 159 counties. [3]
The headquarters of the system is the Rome-Floyd County Library, located in Rome, Georgia. Patrons of the library receive a PINES library card. This card may be used at any of the 275 libraries affiliated with the program across Georgia, as well as the six branches in the Sara Hightower Regional Library System, and is open to all Georgia residents.
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 ...
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 ...
Membership was restricted to white men until 1873 when white women were allowed to join. The YMLA system remained the de facto library system of the city for the rest of the century. During the 1890s, however, the YMLA, Andrew Carnegie, and the City of Atlanta, started to work out the details of a new public library in Atlanta. [3]
On January 20, 1980 the new library was dedicated to the public. [9] In 1982 the Dalton Public Library left the W.C. Martin House for the recently constructed new regional headquarters. [6] Through a special LSCA grant in 1984 an addition for a Special Collections Room was added to this new location. [7]
Nottingham Central Library is the name given to the main public lending library in Nottingham, England. The current library building on Carrington St opened in November 2023, closer to the railway station. The previous library at Angel Row was closed to the public in 2020, with the contents placed into storage until the new building was ...
The Nottingham Subscription Library was founded on 1 April 1816 at Carlton Street, in the Hockley area of the city. [8] [9] In April 1820, Bromley House was offered for sale by auction and purchased by the library for £2,750 (equivalent to £277,657 in 2023). [10] The library moved in during 1821. [11]