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The library was established in 1990 and located in the library at Plainfield Elementary School. Later, the library moved to a classroom in the Wind Gap Middle School. Both spaces were donated by the Pen Argyl Area School District. In 1998, Lafayette Bank provided the building at 216 S. Robinson Avenue to the library. [3]
Belfast is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plainfield Township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. As of the 2010 census, the village's population was 1,257.
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
In 1980, the Chester County Library moved to its current location in Exton (next to the Exton Square Mall). In 1982, the library in Exton received a National Association of Counties Award for its Library Literacy Program, the first in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania handling 30,000 illiterate and 15,000 non-English speaking residents.
As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 1,341 people, 505 households, and 384 families residing in the township. The population density was 26.7 inhabitants per square mile (10.3/km 2).
A library card from any library in the system is valid at all other libraries in the system and at most libraries in the state. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The county system serves 550,000 residents with a collection of 1,400,000 volumes. 2,150,000 items circulate per year.
The State Library of Pennsylvania is one of the largest research libraries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Until 1971 it was known as the Pennsylvania State Library. [1] The Office of Commonwealth Libraries, within the Pennsylvania Department of Education, has holdings in almost every area of human concern. It provides information and ...
The state congressional district map was redrawn by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in February 2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering; the previous 1st district was geographically succeeded by the newly redrawn 2nd district which on November 6, 2018, elected Brendan Boyle, the incumbent from the ...