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On June 28, 1989, library trustees voted to change the name of the library from Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County to Columbus Metropolitan Library. [13] Since it initially opened, the Main Library has undergone four major renovations and expansions to accommodate the city's increasing population, in the 1950s, 1961, 1990–1991 ...
The new library opened on July 29, 1990 with a collection of 200,000 books, tapes, records, CDs and magazines. [1] The cost of its construction was $3.3 million, and it was designed by the firm Bryant and Bryant. Juanita E. Thornton died one month after the library opened, on September 14, 1990. In October 1992, the library was named in her honor.
The northern line of the neighborhood is defined by Eastern Avenue NW, which divides Shepherd Park from Silver Spring, Maryland. [1] The neighborhood is further bounded at the south by Parks at Walter Reed (the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center), at the east by Georgia Avenue NW, and the west by 16th Street NW.
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This year, Bucks County library visitors can “browse our Banned Books display, learn about the history of Banned Books and how you can get involved” every day from Sept. 22 through Sept. 28.
The origination of a county-wide library system dates to the 1940s, when the County Grange proposed the idea of consolidating existing services and extending outreach to other communities. In 1944, voters in unincorporated Whatcom County passed a measure initiating a tax for library services and forming the Rural Library District. [1]
In addition to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library — the system's central library — the D.C. Public Library has 26 neighborhood branch library locations throughout the city and operates a location at the city's jail. The first neighborhood branch was the Takoma Park Neighborhood Library.
Today the library system includes a main library and 13 branch libraries in Fort Wayne and throughout the county. The 367,000 square feet (34,100 m 2) Main Library Branch in downtown Fort Wayne is home to the Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department which holds the largest public genealogy collection in the United States.