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The Salt Lake City main library covers an area of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m 2) in a five-story tall, wedge-shaped building. [10] The structure includes 44,960 cubic yards (34,370 m 3 ) of concrete, and 176,368 square feet (16,385.1 m 2 ) of glass, including a five-story curved glass outer wall.
Several of Salt Lake City's cultural events take place at Washington Square, and often 200 East Street between it and Library Square is blocked off to create one large event plaza. To protect the lawn and trees, the large celebrations are, as of 2019, limited to four a year (including the Living Traditions Festival, Utah Arts Festival, Utah ...
Because of this law, the Free Public Library of Salt Lake City, the city's first government-run free public library, opened on February 14, 1898. Its temporary location was on the top floor of the Salt Lake City and County Building, and the collection consisted mainly of a stockpile of 11,910 books donated by the Pioneer Library Association. [3]
The station is located at 225 East 400 South (East University Boulevard/SR-186), [5] with the island platform being in the median of 400 South. It is situated immediately north of the main Salt Lake City Public Library building and northwest of the Salt Lake City and County Building.
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 ...
He expanded the library's mission by building institutional memory, knowledge of the library's past, increasing inclusion, and networking resources to other libraries and communities. [15] [18] In 2017, Cureton and UPC executive director Carol Gnade arranged for the Salt Lake City Library to host the lending collection at the Main Library branch.
The Church History Library (CHL) is a research center and archives building housing materials chronicling the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The library is owned by the Church and opened in 2009 in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah .
The Utah State Library Commission was created in 1957 when Governor George D. Clyde appointed a ten-person library commission in accordance with a recently passed state law. [2] The library was originally housed in the Governor's Mansion before it moved to the state fair grounds and ultimately was moved to 2150 South 300 West in Salt Lake City. [2]