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Parkway Central Library also known as Free Library or Central Library is the main public library building and administrative headquarters of the Free Library of Philadelphia system. It is the largest library, and only research library, of 54 library branches in the Free Library system. The library opened on Vine Street in Philadelphia in 1927.
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] The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation is a separate 501c3 non-profit with its own board ...
The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin , the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States.
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 ...
May 21—The Brownsville Public Library main branch at 2600 Central Blvd. had a business-as-usual look on Tuesday, 10 days after a shooting there left one man dead and closed the library. The ...
Dayton Metro Library is a multi-branch library system serving 531,687 residents of the Dayton Metropolitan Area. It has 19 locations across the area (as well as two bookmobiles ). Almost 5.8 million items were borrowed in 2018. [2] The Dayton Metro Library ranks in the top ten best libraries in the United States serving a population of over ...
New York Public Library Main Branch. / 40.75306°N 73.98194°W / 40.75306; -73.98194. The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library [b]) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York ...
The library operates 30 branch locations throughout the city, and an 8-story main branch, the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, in the Government District of downtown. It also operates the Bookmarks Children's Library located in NorthPark Center .