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In the first decades of the library system service was maintained for Atlanta residents only, and as a result Fulton County was left without library service. Using Works Progress Administration and city funds, the City of Atlanta and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners signed a contract in 1935 to provide library coverage throughout the ...
His experience then extended to the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (Director 2005-2012), [2] Clearwater Public Library System in Florida, and Palm Harbor Public Library, also in Florida. [3] During his Florida tenure, he served as Florida Library Association president. [4] [3] Szabo became City Librarian of Los Angeles in 2012. [5] [6]
On July 1, 1983, the transfer finally became official, and the system was renamed the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates, who was the first African American director of the Library System, a new Central library was opened to the public in May 1988. The building was designed by Marcel Breuer, a ...
Ella Gaines Yates (June 14, 1927 – June 27, 2006) [1] is recognized in the library world as being the first African-American director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System in Georgia. [2] [3] Yates was born into a well known and wealthy family in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Booker T. Washington High School. She was accepted to ...
Fulton County Commissioner Randy Bunch, who helped spearhead the local challenge to 2020 election results in the weeks after the votes were tallied, told the USA TODAY Network just days before ...
The Atlanta Central Library in Downtown Atlanta is the main library and headquarters of the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System. [1] The visual conceptualization of the building was influenced by mid-century modernism and the International Style, with the exterior cladding and surface being Béton Brut; an architectural aesthetic that later became known as Brutalism or Brutalist.
Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System: APLS: Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System: PINES: Azalea Regional Library System: PINES: Bartow County Library System: BCLS: Bartram Trail Regional Library System: PINES: Brooks County Public Library: PINES: Catoosa County Library: PINES: Chattahoochee Valley Libraries: CVL: Chattooga County ...
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office has sequestered a Fulton County election office from the state's voter registration system after a cyberattack hit the county government over the weekend ...