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The Calcasieu Parish Public Library serves citizens in all of Calcasieu Parish.This system has thirteen locations and is governed by a nine-member board. The largest location is the Central Library, located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and the library system is a member of the Libraries Southwest consortia.
Central's first library opened in the W.R. Edwards Store in 1940. The store needed room for expansion, so the library closed in 1944. It restarted activities in a permanent building in November of the following year. The library moved to a 2,604-square-foot (241.9 m 2) leased building on April 10, 1972. The library purchased that building in 1982.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Louisiana provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Louisiana, where 9 libraries were built from 4 grants (totaling $380,000) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1907. As of 2013, 6 of these buildings are still standing, and 3 still operate as libraries.
LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network is a library consortium made up of 47 college and university libraries in the state of Louisiana. LOUIS was founded in 1992 by library deans and directors at both public and private institutions in the state. [ 1 ]
Central Library. Lake Charles has four libraries. The largest, with over 400,000 volumes, is Frazar Memorial Library, on the McNeese State University campus. [64] The first library, Carnegie Memorial Library, was financed by Andrew Carnegie and opened in 1904. [65] It also houses the Southwest Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Library.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is expanding into Rapides Parish, courtesy of The Rapides Foundation and Rapides Women's and Children's Hospital through the Southwest Louisiana Area Health ...
Central Louisiana (French: Centre du Louisiane), also known as the Crossroads, is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The largest communities in the region as of the 2010 Census were Alexandria (47,893), Natchitoches (18,323) and Pineville (14,555).
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