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Library Systems & Services is a private for-profit company that manages municipal libraries on an outsourced basis. [1] [2] It is the largest library outsourcing company in the United States. It runs 20 library systems in 80 locations. Its headquarters are in Rockville, Maryland [2] and it also operates in the UK. [3]
Harris County Public Library (HCPL) is a public library system serving Harris County, Texas, United States. Since its inception in 1921, HCPL has grown from a system of small book stations in homes, stores and post offices to 26 branch libraries serving a population of over 1.3 million users in unincorporated areas countywide.
Heights Neighborhood Library is a public library facility in the Houston Heights area of Houston, Texas. It is a part of Houston Public Library (HPL) and is located at 1302 Heights Boulevard, [2] in Heights block 170. [3] It has a pink Stucco Italian Renaissance façade and arches in its doors and windows. Jason P. Theriot wrote in the Houston ...
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In 1921 the city of Houston disbanded the library board and made the library a branch of the Houston Public Library system. [6] Charles Norton Love, an African American civil rights activist and publisher of the Texas Freeman helped advocate for construction and funding of the library. Houston's public library system was desegregated in 1953.
The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1854. [2] [3] The lyceum was preceded by a debating society, a special-interest mechanics' lyceum, and a circulating library. The lyceum's library eventually split into a separate institution at the end of the 19th century. [3]
The Maryland Library Association (MLA) is a professional organization for Maryland's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded in November, 1923, in Baltimore , after a letter writing campaign by Charlotte Newell from the Maryland Public Library Advisory Commission.