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The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives were inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1996. [ 2 ] Although a private non-profit , the library has received public funding for its continuing operation from Illinois' "Fund for the Future," including a $25,000 grant in 1999.
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, three regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas. [5]
The library was built in 1919 and opened on October 11, 1920; it was the first regional library in Chicago. Chicago architect Alfred S. Alschuler designed the building in the Beaux Arts style. [3] A Works Progress Administration mural in the library depicts Jacques Marquette and Native American traders during Marquette's visit to the Chicago ...
Chicago Collections has established partnerships with other non-profit organizations in the City of Chicago, including National Public Radio, Chicago Metro History Education Center, and the Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources program, to answer questions about Chicago history from researchers and the general public, and to ...
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Director of the American Library Association, National Defense Book Campaign. [35] President, California Library Association, 1921; Director of the Los Angeles Public Library, 1933-1947 [36] Carl Vitz: 1944–1945: Director, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1946–1955 Ralph A. Ulveling [37] 1945–1946
Highlights of Sullivan's career include President of ALA's Children's Services Division (now the Association for Library Service to Children – ALSC) (1976–1977), Chair Centennial Celebration of the American Library Association (1976), assistant commissioner for extension services at the Chicago Public Library (1977–1981), ALA president ...
The library now offers computer-based searches of a wide variety of scientific and medical data bases. [12] Since the 1950s, [6] the library offers corporate memberships to both for-profit and non-profit organizations that now includes borrowing privileges and access to the University of Chicago Libraries as well as to Crerar. [1]