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The people of Panama City Beach were requesting their own library. At first, the Northwest Regional Library System sent their bookmobile to the Beach and staffed it with a volunteer. Each day, an employee of the library would meet the staff member to assist in providing library service to the community. The Bookmobile service began in 1981.
The Jacksonville Public Library is the public library system of Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It primarily serves Jacksonville and Duval County merged areas, and is also used by the neighboring Baker, Nassau, Clay, and St. Johns counties. It is one of the largest library systems in Florida, with a collection of over three million items.
Jacksonville is a city in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 14,385, [ 2 ] which is a 14.6% increase since 2010 and a 71.2% increase since 2000. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area .
It was in 1966, that the library moved to its present location across the street from the Carnegie Library, which still houses the library today. In 1968, Pennington and Red Lake counties banded together to form the Northwest Regional Library system and established the Thief River Falls Public Library as its headquarters library. The regional ...
The first library constructed in the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System was the Calhoun-Gordon library which was constructed through efforts of the Calhoun Woman's Club in 1904. [4] The next known library was constructed in 1921 in Dalton, Georgia as part of a service organized by The Dalton Woman's Club. [5]
The Alabama Library Association (ALLA) is a professional organization for Alabama's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded on November 21, 1904, in Montgomery. [1] Thomas Owen, director of the Alabama Department of Archives, was the association's first President from 1904 through 1920. [1]
In anticipation of the grand opening on October 24, 1971, 25,000 leaflets were sent out to the residents in the neighborhood, inviting them to visit their new library. Minneapolis Public Library director Ervin J. Gaines envisioned a citywide system of regional libraries like North Regional, a south regional library was planned but no others ...
The new library was funded by a $113 million levy passed in 1998, which funded reconstruction or renovation of 12 of the system's 15 branches. [4] As of May 2000, Multnomah County officials were considering one location between N.W. 22nd and 23rd avenues and N.W. Lovejoy Street, and another on N.W. 23rd Avenue and Thurman Street. [ 5 ]