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The Joplin Public Library District was established in 1902 when the citizens of Joplin, Missouri voted for a 10-cent tax to operate a public library. A Carnegie Foundation grant of $40,000 paid for the construction of a library building, with the community's having raised money to provide operating and maintenance funds.
Baltimore County Public Library (BCPL), established in 1948, is a public library system located in central Maryland and headquartered in Towson, Maryland [4] [5] BCPL serves Baltimore County, Maryland, which surrounds but does not include the city of Baltimore. [6] Still, occasionally the two library systems share resources and expertise. [7]
Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people; this makes the city the fifth largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, a violent EF5 tornado killed more than 150 people and destroyed one-third of the city.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County began construction on the first wing of the library in 1968. The new library was built across from the Library Pond on a hillside, therefore having a lower and upper floor. Over the years, the library continued to expand to accompany the growing university, beginning with the east wing constructed in ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Missouri provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Missouri, where 33 public libraries were built from 26 grants (totaling $1,502,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1899 to 1917. In addition, academic libraries were built at 2 institutions (totaling ...
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland.Its Central Library is located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded by West Franklin Street (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, West Mulberry Street (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue ...
The Joplin Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie library located at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. It was built in 1902, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style steel frame building sheathed in brick and white Carthage marble. It measures 79 feet by 86 feet and features a pedimented Ionic order porch which is distyle in antis. A four ...