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Albany Public Library (APL) is a public library system serving the city of Albany, New York. APL also operates as the Central Library for the Upper Hudson Library System, a resource sharing consortium which unites public library services across twenty-nine member libraries in Albany County and Rensselaer County .
It was the first library building in the city, and the beginning of Albany's current public library system. [2] By 1977 the library had grown to the point that it moved out of the building. A small bookstore operated out of a small portion of the rear basement. [5] After over a decade, the city decided to sell the building in 1990.
The New York State Library is a research library in Albany, New York, United States. It was established in 1818 to serve the state government of New York and is part of the New York State Education Department. The library is one of the largest in the world by number of items held, with over 20 million cataloged items in 2011. [1]
The Harmanus Bleecker Library, originally built by the city as its first library but now redeveloped privately as office space, [27] is one of eight properties with a past or present cultural function. Of the other seven only two, the Albany Institute of History & Art and the Palace Theatre, are purpose-built
The city of Albany had a subscription library which operated from 1885 to about 1890. Because of renewed interested in having a public library, a grant was requested from Andrew Carnegie. [2] A pledge of $10,000 was made on June 2, 1903, and a lot was purchased in July 1904. [2] [3] The building was designed by Edmond J. Eckel. After requesting ...
He was also a civic activist and philanthropist and was a founder of Albany's public library and the city's Institute of History & Arts. Long active in the militia, Van Rensselaer attained the rank of major general ; he commanded troops on the New York–Canada border during the War of 1812 , but resigned his commission after defeat at the ...
A community that only 12 years ago was still a village has seen monumental growth ‒ so much so that it has hired a third public-information officer to help disseminate all the information there ...
The New York State Archives was established in 1971 to preserve and make accessible recorded evidence documenting New York State's history, governments, events, and peoples from the 17th century to the present. Full operations began in 1978 when the organization's storage and research facility opened in the Cultural Education Center.