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Patrons could borrow one volume of fiction and one volume of non-fiction for two weeks. The library provided services to six schools. During the first year of operation, 13,901 books were circulated and 1,977 patrons were registered. The library held Saturday story hours for children.
The award is one of five annual Georgia Public Library Awards, honoring the outstanding service and achievements of Georgia's public libraries, librarians and advocates during the previous year. [13] This was the first time the award had been given to a regional library system and not an individual library. [citation needed]
Public library service began in Tulsa County in the early 1900s. The first library was located in the basement of the Tulsa County courthouse. A Carnegie Library Grant for $12,500 was issued in 1904. The grant was raised to $42,500 in 1913 and to $55,000 in 1915. The original Carnegie Library in downtown Tulsa was demolished in 1965. [9]
The first large regional library was the Regency Square branch, which opened in 1973. Six new regional branches were built throughout the city in the 1970s–1990s. In 1999 the original regional branch, Regency Square, reopened after undergoing a two-year renovation.
The posted hours when the Carnegie Library first opened was weekdays from 8 am to 10 am and 4 pm to 8 pm, but in subsequent issues of the Ocala Evening Star, the Ocala Carnegie Library's librarian, Louise Gamsby, made notice that the library's hours had changed to weekdays 9 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 8 pm. [5] [6]
The library was built in 1909 and opened to the public in 1910. Miss Sally Gravatt served as the first librarian. In 1969, Central Rappahannock Regional Library system was formed. Lafayette school building was donated to the library system. In 1970, the Wallace Library books collection was merged with 29,000 books purchased by the state of ...
The Lake Agassiz Regional Library system was developed in 1961 to extend library services throughout the counties in northwestern Minnesota. It was the first regional library system created in Minnesota that was formed through already existing rural libraries. [1]
Regional library systems began to popularize in the 1940s, and with the $100,000 in funding, Augusta was able to attract nearby counties to attract extra state funding. [8] The first contract between counties occurred in 1951 with Columbia County to form a two-county regional library.