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The Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System is a network of public libraries serving the City of Atlanta and Fulton County, both in the U.S. state of Georgia. The ...
The Atlanta Central Library in Downtown Atlanta is the main library and headquarters of the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System. [1] The visual conceptualization of the building was influenced by mid-century modernism and the International Style, with the exterior cladding and surface being Béton Brut; an architectural aesthetic that later became known as Brutalism or Brutalist.
The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History is a special library within the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. It is in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District. [1] The Auburn Avenue Research Library opened in 1994 as the first library in the Southeast to offer specialized reference and archival collections ...
This is a list of all public library systems in Georgia, United States, serviced under the Georgia Public Library Service. [1] Georgia has 62 library systems [2] consisting of 387 branches serving its 159 counties. [3]
On July 1, 1983, the transfer finally became official, and the system was renamed the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates, who was the first African American director of the Library System, a new Central library was opened to the public in May 1988. The building was designed by Marcel Breuer, a ...
His experience then extended to the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (Director 2005-2012), [2] Clearwater Public Library System in Florida, and Palm Harbor Public Library, also in Florida. [3] During his Florida tenure, he served as Florida Library Association president. [4] [3] Szabo became City Librarian of Los Angeles in 2012. [5] [6]
The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System named the Washington Park/Annie L. McPheeters Branch Library in honor of her work. [1] In 1936 she became the librarian of the Auburn Carnegie Library, in Atlanta GA, where she started the Negro History Collection and was also instrumental in the creation of educational programs. [1]
The Cobb County Library System has continued to see growth into the 21st century. In 2002 a library in West Cobb opened, and in 2005 the South Cobb Regional Library opened. In 2007 a new building was secured in Powder Springs, and their town library moved to its new location on Atlanta Road. [7]