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It is a New York City designated landmark. [39] 93: West New Brighton Library: 976 Castleton Avenue When the branch opened in 1913, it was a sub-branch of the NYPL. The West New Brighton moved to a second location in 1918, and then to its present site in 1933. [40]
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 ...
The CUNY Graduate Center's primary library, named after Mina Rees, is located on campus; however, its students also have borrowing privileges at the remaining 31 City University of New York libraries, which collectively house 6.2 million printed works and over 300,000 e-books.
CUNY's history dates back to the formation of the Free Academy in 1847 by Townsend Harris. [9] The school was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the … city and county of New York". [10]
In 1974, the Library consolidated its collection and moved to the college's new building, North Hall, located at West 59th St. and 10th Ave., under the leadership of Chief Librarian Carol Alexander. The next Chief Librarian, Eileen Rowland , was appointed in 1977, by which time the Library's collection had grown to over 100,000 books and media.
Nydia Velázquez – U.S. Congresswoman, New York, 1993–present; Alice von Hildebrand – philosopher and author; Robert C. Weaver – first U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Blanche Colton Williams, professor of English literature and head of the English department; Nari Ward, professor of combined media
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Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997, 2000.