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[189] The first public library for African Americans in the South funded by the Carnegie Corporation was the Western Colored Branch in Louisville, Kentucky in 1908. [190] Several years later, in 1914, spearheaded by the renowned black educator Albert Mayzeek, the Eastern Colored Branch opened in a Carnegie financed facility. [190]
In 1978, the two libraries in Kingsland and St Marys were officially designated as Camden County Public Library and St Marys Public Library. [6] The regional library system was renamed as the Three Rivers Regional Library System in 2000, [7] a nod to the three rivers -- the Altamaha, the Satilla, and the St. Marys-- that tie the region together.
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).
This was a small public library. The first large public library supported by taxes in the United States was the Boston Public Library, which was established in 1848 but did not open its doors to the public until 1854. [65] The Redwood Library and Athenaeum was founded in 1747 by a group led by Abraham Redwood. [66]
The first public library to open in Seminole County was the Donalsonville Public Library, which opened on May 11, 1928. Initially this library existed in an old millinery store before moving in 1929 to the city courthouse. [5] In 1952 the Decatur-Seminole Regional Library was formed.
The term library is based on the Latin word liber for 'book' or 'document', contained in Latin libraria 'collection of books' and librarium 'container for books'. Other modern languages use derivations from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothēkē), originally meaning 'book container', via Latin bibliotheca (cf. French bibliothèque or German Bibliothek).
The Nantahala Regional Library was founded May 1, 1937, when the Murphy Library Board entered into a contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide library services at the construction site of Hiwassee Dam. The first regional librarian was hired at that time. The NRL started operation in the Carnegie library building in downtown Murphy ...
The goals that were identified in 1929, by the Policy Committee, were achieved with the financial support from three educational foundations: (1) The Julius Rosenwald Fund provided support to numerous school and college libraries for African Americans, sponsored demonstration programs of public library service, and laid the foundation for library extension work in the South through grants to ...