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Website. www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org. The Phoenix Public Library is a municipal library system serving Phoenix, Arizona, and operated by the city of Phoenix. There are 16 branches currently in operation citywide, anchored by the flagship Burton Barr Central Library on the northern edge of downtown Phoenix.
Burton Barr Central Library. The Burton Barr Central Library is the central library of Phoenix, Arizona. It is the flagship location and administrative headquarters for the Phoenix Public Library. It was named in honor of Burton Barr, the Republican Majority Leader in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1966 to 1986. [1]
Millard & Creighton; William R. Norton; Reeves & Baillie. NRHP reference No. 74000456 [1] Added to NRHP. November 19, 1974. The Phoenix Carnegie Library and Library Park, now known as the Carnegie Center, is a historic site in Phoenix, Arizona. Completed in 1908, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
mcldaz.org. The Maricopa County Library District is a public library system located in central Arizona, United States. It is the largest library system in the US by population served. [4] The library district serves unincorporated areas in Maricopa County, Arizona. In addition, the district partners with cities/towns and school districts to ...
Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Its 17-square-mile (44 km 2) site was obtained in a land exchange with the Navajo Nation. The city is perched atop Manson Mesa at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,300 m) above sea level and 600 ...
350 S 3rd Ave. 32°43′14.21″N 114°37′26.63″W. / 32.7206139°N 114.6240639°W / 32.7206139; -114.6240639 ( Yuma Carnegie Library) Opened February 24, 1921. Although heavily renovated in the 1950s and again in 2008, the original Carnegie library still stands as a branch library for the Yuma County Library District. [ 4]
Map of Hohokam lands c. 1350. The Hohokam people occupied the Phoenix area for 2,000 years. [25] [26] They created roughly 135 miles (217 kilometers) of irrigation canals, making the desert land arable, and paths of these canals were used for the Arizona Canal, Central Arizona Project Canal, and the Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct.
The Scottsdale Public Library is the public library system for Scottsdale, Arizona, and is owned and operated by the City of Scottsdale. As of 2023 the library system serves Scottsdale’s 226,918 residents, residents of Maricopa County, and numerous visitors from around the world. [2] The library’s collection contains over 800,000 items ...