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The "Women's Literary Club" established a fund for the first lending library in Lafayette in 1897. In 1932 the "Les Vingt Quatre Club" started a library for children during the Great Depression, which consisted of 50 volumes located in the Parish courthouse. [1] The Lafayette Municipal Library was created by the Louisiana state government in 1942.
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The Lafayette Public Library Committee met on Monday, Nov. 18 to address facility updates, financial reports and book discards.
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As of 2021, the consolidated city–parish's top employers have been the Lafayette Parish School System, Lafayette General Health, Wood Group Production Services, Lafayette Consolidated Government, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, WHC, Inc., Walmart, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Schlumberger, and Stuller, Inc. [100] The ...
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In 1940, the library was moved to North 3rd Street in the building which had been vacated by the Hill Memorial Library after Louisiana State University removed to a new campus south of town in 1926. [5] In 1925 there were only five free public libraries in the state which served 600,000 people. [6]