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Kitsap Regional Library currently owns two of its library facilities: the Poulsbo and Sylvan Way locations. [citation needed] The facilities in downtown Bremerton and Port Orchard are owned by the city in which they are located. The remaining locations are owned by separate entities: the Little Boston location is owned by the Port Gamble S ...
North Community Library [94] (the city's first branch library; 1893–1979) [95] Seven Corners (1912–1964) [96] Stubbs Bay (closed in August 1955) Robbinsdale (community now served by the Rockford Road library) [97] The Hennepin County Library formerly operated school libraries in rural communities and a library in Glen Lake Sanatorium. [86]
The original Mother Church (1894) is in the foreground and behind it is the Mother Church Extension (1906). [ 1 ] Eleven years before the Manual by-law, there was an earlier concept of reading room and a dispensary of literature and services for those unable to afford to pay for Christian Science treatment or transportation to a Christian ...
After the war, in 1947, the library Board raised $50,000 to purchase the Stern House and a vacant lot at the corner of Hancock and College Avenue, next to the First Presbyterian Church. The house, built in 1830, was remodeled and furniture and equipment were donated, and on March 13, 1949, the new library was dedicated.
The Bloomingdale Library was expanded by an additional 10,000 square-feet in 2013, thereby making it a regional library. This additional space was geared towards creating a larger children's room, community rooms, seating for studying, a larger Friends of the Library Book Store, and more area for technology and teen activities. [7]
A battle over library books is dividing Metropolis, Illinois, which shares a name with Superman’s home. A pastor is framing the fight as a clash between good and evil.
The first library to be built that is now part of the system is the Lavonia-Carnegie Library in Lavonia, built in 1911 with funding from Andrew Carnegie. [ 6 ] A second library began in 1915 when two citizens of the county, Mary Oberby and L. Campbell, donated their collection of books to the public starting the Mary Overby Library.
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.