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The Carnegie Library is in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. The foundation stone of St. Anne's Library was laid in August 1904 and the building was officially opened on 10 January 1906. The land was given by the St. Anne's on the Sea Land and Building Company, and Andrew Carnegie paid for the building itself. This was the first library in ...
Lytham library was built originally as a Mechanics Institute. It included a small library of books and a reading room and opened on 30 August 1878. The building was extended in 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, including a new reading room, gymnasium and classrooms. The extension was opened by the Duke of Norfolk.
What became the Fielden Free Library started life as the Whitworth Institute, built in the Venetian Gothic style in 1863. It was bought by Samuel Fielden in 1887 and offered to the town as a public library. It remained the town's library until a new building was opened by Lancashire County Council in May 1988.
Accrington Library is a Carnegie library located in the town of Accrington, Lancashire. In 1904 a sum of £7,500 was offered to the town by the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the building of a new library. Following an application for more funds this offer was increased to £10,000. The building itself was opened in ...
In the same ten-year period, circulation increased by 90%; 3,495,399 items were checked out. The system's online catalog had over 913,006 library holdings shared throughout the county. A large number of virtual visitors accessed the online catalog and databases through the library system website.
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Opening of the Carnegie Library in Rawtenstall on 1 June 1907. Initially lighting was provided by oil lamps but from 1908 to 1909 electricity was used. Increased usage and popularity meant that the lending Library was extended from 1914 (again funded by Carnegie) and 3 years earlier in 1911 a Reference Library had been opened on the first floor ...
The Ruskin – Library, Museum and Research Centre is an archive, museum, [1] and research centre at Lancaster University, [2] in the north of England. The Director of The Ruskin is Professor Sandra Kemp. [3] Prior to 2019, The Ruskin – Library, Museum and Research Centre was known as the Ruskin Library.