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The University of Minnesota Libraries is the library system of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, operating at 12 facilities in and around Minneapolis–Saint Paul. It has over 8 million volumes and 119,000 serial titles that are collected, maintained and made accessible. [ 1 ]
The Two Harbors Carnegie Library, located at 320 Waterfront Avenue, Two Harbors, Minnesota, United States, is a public library building built in 1909 with a $15,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. [2] This was one of over 3,000 libraries in 47 states funded by Carnegie. [4] It was built in the Classical Revival style with brick and sandstone. [5]
Many of the branches of the current library system were established by entities other than the system itself. The Minneapolis Public Library was founded in 1885 to serve Minneapolis, the county's largest city. [4] It opened its first two branches in 1890. [5] During the 1890s, many areas of Minnesota, especially rural zones, lacked free libraries.
Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Clemens, Kevin (2011). Carnegie Libraries of Minnesota. Lake Elmo, Minn.: Demontreville Press, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9789563-7-0. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
In 1875 the Lincoln City Library and Reading Room Association was formed as a private organization. In 1877, the Nebraska State Legislature passed a bill allowing the municipal governments of any community in the state of Nebraska to form a public library system and the Lincoln City Library and Reading Room Association was subsequently incorporated as a city-owned and tax-funded organization ...
College View was annexed into the city of Lincoln in January 1930, and the city library board absorbed the College View library as a branch of the Lincoln public library system. [8] By 1953, it was the only Lincoln public library to maintain Sunday hours; the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star noted that it "had patrons from many parts of Lincoln ...
For many years, Hosmer Head Librarian Roy Woodstrom was at the vanguard of innovation in delivering services to patrons. Following significant budget cuts in 2004, [13] the City of Minneapolis elected to reduce libraries' hours of service. At Hosmer, open days dropped to four days a week.
The Lincoln Branch Library is a former Carnegie library building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. It was constructed from 1915 to 1917 as the first permanent home of a Duluth Public Library branch first established in 1892. The Lincoln Branch Library was built of brick and limestone in the Late Gothic ...