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Memphis Public Libraries (MPL) is a public library system serving Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis Public Libraries has a yearly circulation of 250,000 items and serves 400,000 patrons a year. [ 1 ] The library has 18 branches located throughout the city of Memphis and surrounding areas, offering up to 3,400 programs to the public each year.
WYPL (89.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station that serves the area of Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States.The station is licensed to the Memphis Public Library & Information Center [2] and provides an open radio reading service to patrons, a type of service usually available elsewhere in the United States only on special leased receivers.
The first radio reading service in Canada was founded by Richard Moses and Gordon Norman in Oakville, Ontario, in the basement of the Woodside Branch of the Oakville Public Library in the mid-1970s. In the United States, many public radio stations carry a local or regional reading service on an FM subcarrier.
A look inside Bartlett Public Library on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The library, at 5884 Stage Road in Bartlett, will exit the Memphis Public Libraries system this summer.
In addition, a public library was constructed at a federally owned veteran's hospital, and seven academic libraries were built at academic institutions (totaling $295,000). Tennesseans rejected several proposed Carnegie libraries, including one in 1889 at Johnson City, his first library offer in the U.S. outside Pennsylvania.
Memphis Public Library. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013. "Memphis Chronology". City of Memphis. "Memphis". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. University of Tennessee Press. Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Memphis, TN, various dates; Tennessee State Library and Archives.
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Croneberger arrived at Memphis and Shelby County Library system in 1975, a year before the city passed an ordinance that banned destroying or damaging library books. In 1980, he was the director when the first person was arrested for violating the ordinance.