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A children's book checked out from the Boise, Idaho, public library in 1910 vanished for 111 years only to be returned anonymously, ... A children's book checked out from the Boise, Idaho, public ...
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For the Boise Public Library, officials changed its challenging policy to allow the board more time to consider challenged material so that it can comply with the 60-day deadline from the new law.
The firm of Misener & Lamkin operated a circulating library in Boise City in the 1860s. [6] The firm, later known as Brown & Lamkin and then as H.H. Lamkin, managed the library from a bookstore at the Boise City post office. [7] And a library operated at Fort Boise as early as 1867, but it was not a public library. [8]
Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached her asking for help. As an information services librarian, answering patrons ...
The anthologies bring attention to comic book writers and artists from the state of Idaho; [3] sales from the comics benefit the Boise Public Library. [4] Copies of the comic books produced by Idaho Comics Group can be found in the Idaho Reference section on the third floor of the Boise Public Library [5] and in the Special Collections and ...
The Carnegie Public Library in Boise was built for $25,000 in 1905. It was paid for by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The city and the Columbian Club, a women’s group, added $5,000 for furnishings.
The Boise Public Library began in 1895 when members of the Columbian Club opened a subscription library and reading room in Boise City Hall. [4] When Boise received a grant in 1904 to build a Carnegie library, local architects John E. Tourtellotte and Charles F. Hummel won the design contract, and the local firm of Michels & Weber received the construction contract.