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2. List of Carnegie libraries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...

3. Carnegie library - Wikipedia

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   A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 ...

4. List of Carnegie libraries in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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   1. Brownsville Carnegie Library. Brownsville. Dec 2, 1909. $7,500. 121 W. Main St. Built 1910–1912; open 1912–2002, now Chamber of Commerce; possibly designed by Neander M. Woods Jr., Memphis; rehabbed 1993 [3] Listed on National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 2. Old Library Building.

5. Public library - Wikipedia

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   The first large public library supported by taxes in the United States was the Boston Public Library, which was established in 1848 but did not open its doors to the public until 1854. [ 65 ] The Redwood Library and Athenaeum was founded in 1747 by a group led by Abraham Redwood. [ 66 ]

6. Public libraries in North America - Wikipedia

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   Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).

7. Los Angeles Public Library - Wikipedia

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   The Los Angeles Library Association was formed in late 1872, and by early 1873, a well-stocked reading room had opened in the Downey Block at Temple and Main streets under the first librarian, John Littlefield. [ 7 ][ 8 ] Los Angeles Public Library is a library with 6 million works located in Los Angeles, United States of America.

8. District of Columbia Public Library - Wikipedia

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   The most recent rebuilt library to open was the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, which opened in 2022 in Queens Chapel. In 2023, library officials announced that they were considering whether to close the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library and relocate it further south to fill a service gap. [ 13 ]

9. Free Library of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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   The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves Philadelphia. [2] It is the 16th-largest public library system in the United States. [3] The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia governed by an independent Board of Trustees as per the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. [4]