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The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) is a public library system serving Evansville and Vanderburgh County in Indiana, USA.The EVPL also supplements the services provided by the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and has the authority to approve the tax levy of the independently run and operated Willard Library.
This definition of a "public" library was a daring social experiment in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The library was named "Willard Library" rather than "Carpenter Library" because, while living in Troy, New York, Carpenter became enamored with the Emma Willard School, a Troy female seminary founded by Emma Willard. He decided to ...
A tradition now in Evansville is the annual Dia de los Muertos event hosted at the Evansville Public Library West Branch in November.. From 2 to 6 p.m. Nov. 2 the lawn, and inside the library, are ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Indiana provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Indiana, where 164 public libraries were built from 156 grants (totaling $2,508,664) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1918. [1]
A Central Library bookcase contains shelves of DVDs with identical spines. Without description, no one would notice them, black type on a white label.
Evansville and Vanderburgh County already have a number of notable merged government functions. The school system is consolidated countywide in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and the library system is consolidated countywide in the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
The Cherry Street Library was a racially segregated branch of the Evansville Public Library which had opened in November 1914; it was a Carnegie library and the "first free public library built north of the Ohio River exclusively for African Americans." [4] Hall started working as an apprentice to the branch manager of the library in January ...
Annually, the Vanderburgh County Commission signs into an agreement with E-REP which gives $300,000 of taxpayer money for economic development.