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The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year ...
Father McGoldrick, who died in 1930, had also been a member of the board of directors of the (then) Queens Borough Public Library. It has moved 3 times, and has been at its current location at 155-06 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing since 1974. [2] 37: Middle Village: 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, NY 11379
Library Image Address Historical Note; 1: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch) Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street: Built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on ...
This Page is for articles related to the Queens Library system, its history, and its archival collections. Pages in category "Queens Public Library" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611. Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
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The Children's Library Discovery Center, in Jamaica, Queens, New York, is an addition to the Queens Central Library building. [1] It was commissioned by the New York City Department of Design & Construction and completed in 2011 under the New York City Design and Construction Excellence program.