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The R.A. Gray Building, which also houses the Museum of Florida History and the Florida Department of State. The State Library and Archives of Florida is a government library with historically significant records of Florida such as private manuscripts and correspondence, local government records, photographs, maps, film clips, and materials that complement the official state records and ...
This new Student Union contained a post office, a bookstore, a restaurant, study rooms, conference rooms, and rooms for student groups. Russell T. Pancoast & Associates designed this building. Pancoast was a prominent architect from South Florida who also designed the John S. Collins Memorial Library, now the Bass Museum. In 1964, the ...
The State University System of Florida Libraries is the academic library system of the State University System of Florida (SUS). The library system, which serves Florida's twelve public universities, is one of the largest in the world, with more than 18 million items. [2] Though each campus library is separate, they share a reciprocal borrowing ...
The Florida Memory Program also produces educational content through educational materials, teacher's lesson plans, a Florida history blog, and online exhibits. Florida Memory is a program of the Bureau of Archives and Records Management within the Division of Library and Information Services of the Florida Department of State. [2]
City officials of Tallahassee took steps to establish a school for boys as early as 1827 with the establishment of the Leon Academy. [13] Leon Academy was advertised in the Pensacola Gazette of March 9, 1827 as being under the supervision of Presbyterian Rev. Henry M. White, A.M. [14] By early 1831 the Leon Academy was under the control of the Tallahassee City Council.
In the United States of America, state library agencies established in each state have long been a catalyst for a great deal of the motivation for public library cooperation. This has been since the founding of the movement, starting in 1890 when Massachusetts created a state Board of Library Commissioners charged to help communities establish ...
The facade of the main entrance to Dodd Hall. Built in 1925, Dodd Hall was the location of the Florida State Library until 1956. Rendered in gold leaf is the phrase, "The half of knowledge is to know where to find knowledge." [29] Florida State University is traceable to a plan set by the 1823 U.S. Congress to create a higher education system. [30]
The Florida Historical Society is an independent, member-supported, 501c(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1856 that publishes the journal Florida Historical Quarterly, originally the Florida Historical Society Quarterly, an academic journal which releases new volumes four times a year, and manages the Library of Florida History.