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The Mount Pleasant Library was the third and last DC Neighborhood Library to be built with Carnegie funding. Andrew Carnegie had funded the construction of the Central Library and, at its dedication in 1903, he offered to finance branch buildings as they were needed. Congress was slow to authorize the acceptance of his offer.
The most recent rebuilt library to open was the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, which opened in 2022 in Queens Chapel. In 2023, library officials announced that they were considering whether to close the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library and relocate it further south to fill a service gap. [13]
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As of 2021, the CHPL's collection held around 9.6 million volumes, the 13th-largest overall library collection in the U.S., [6] [7] and the 2nd-largest public library collection in the U.S. [7] Its electronic book holdings were nearly six million, the most of any public library in the country.
Mount Pleasant developed rapidly as a streetcar suburb after the expansion of the mechanized Washington streetcars along 16 1/2 Street (now Mount Pleasant Street) in 1903. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] In 1907, developer Fulton R. Gordon purchased large sections of the neighborhood, marketing lots as "Mount Pleasant Heights" with Robert E. Heater. [ 8 ]
The Cleveland Public Library is a public library system in Cleveland, Ohio.Founded in 1869, it had a circulation of 3.5 million items in 2020. It operates the Main Library on Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland, 27 branches throughout the city, a mobile library, a Public Administration Library in City Hall, and the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled.
The Mount Pleasant Public Library welcomes everyone to the Wikipedia and Food presentation taking place Wednesday, January 11, 2017, 7:00 pm in Pleasantville, New York. Wikipedia is a popular source of information on many topics, including food.