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The Carnegie Library remained the main library of the system for most of the century. The library was renovated in 1950 and 1966 through city bond funding. Before 1950 the system was referred to as the Carnegie Library, but to commemorate the renovation of the central Carnegie Library the system was renamed the Atlanta Public Library in 1950. [3]
The Atlanta Central Library in Downtown Atlanta is the main library and headquarters of the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System. [1] The visual conceptualization of the building was influenced by mid-century modernism and the International Style, with the exterior cladding and surface being Béton Brut; an architectural aesthetic that later became known as Brutalism or Brutalist.
This is a list of all public library systems in Georgia, United States, serviced under the Georgia Public Library Service. [1] Georgia has 62 library systems [2] consisting of 387 branches serving its 159 counties. [3]
Carter grew up in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, which is about 150 miles south of the presidential library in Atlanta.In a section about Carter's youth, a display case held Carter's ...
The Georgia State University Library was established in 1948 as a branch of the University of Georgia Library. In 1951, the library purchased over 2,000 volumes from James Walter Mason. [2] The original library staff only had three trained employees. [2] After seven years of expansion, the library found a home on the second floor of Sparks Hall ...
[2] [3] [4] The library, constructed in 1982, is named for Robert Winship Woodruff, former CEO of the Coca Cola Company. [5] In 2010, the library completed a $16.2 million renovation, partly funded by donations from the Coca Cola Company. [6] [7] [8] The library is a member of ARCHE, Lyrasis, OCLC and the HBCU Library Alliance.
The library opened on May 14, 1994, with 50,000 square feet of space at a cost of $10 million. [5] It became the second public library in the United States focused on black history and culture. [5] The renovation completed in 2016, led by Perkins and Will, expanded the library to 106,500 square feet. [9]
The library viewed from within the museum. Early in his administration, Carter indicated interest in having his presidential library be built in Georgia. [5] The site chosen was in the Poncey–Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, on land that had been acquired by the state of Georgia Department of Transportation, for an interchange between two redundant highways that were cancelled by Carter ...