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  2. Public library - Wikipedia

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    A public library is a library, ... It was also uncommon for these libraries to have buildings designated solely as the library building during the 1790s, though in ...

  3. Detroit Public Library Main Branch - Wikipedia

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    At the time, the Centre Park Library on Gratiot and Library street in the downtown district was the main branch. Andrew Carnegie offered $750,000 for the proposed main branch, and the city asked to submit a ballot question regarding issuing $500,000 of library bonds for purpose of complying with Carnegie's offer. However, voters rejected ...

  4. Public libraries in North America - Wikipedia

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    Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).

  5. New York Public Library Main Branch - Wikipedia

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    The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library [b]) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library system, has nine divisions ...

  6. List of Carnegie libraries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A: ^ Owing to confusion from Old Colorado City's incorporation into Colorado Springs, Jones counts a library twice and reports this figure as 36.; B: ^ Bobinski and Miller do not list Gardiner as having received a full grant because its grant was to complete an unfinished building (noted in Anderson and Miller); Anderson and Jones include it.

  7. Harold Washington Library - Wikipedia

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    The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...

  8. Carnegie library - Wikipedia

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    Of that, $40 million was given for construction of 1,670 public library buildings in 1,412 American communities. [15] Small towns received grants of $10,000 that enabled them to build large libraries that immediately were among the most significant town amenities in hundreds of communities. [16]

  9. Detroit Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Detroit Public Library is the second largest library system in the U.S. state of Michigan by volumes held ... The first library building, constructed in 1872 at ...