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Your Dowagiac District Library has the answer: it's change, such as the many recent improvements to the familiar Carnegie Library at 211 Commercial St. in Dowagiac. On Tuesday, April 28, the library Board of Trustees invites once and future patrons to a Library Open House. (Dowagiac News, MI)
Broken water line closes new main library (23) Apr 15, 2009
The Carnegie Library at 302 Ferry St. S.W. is open. Reader Comments The comments below are from readers of Democratherald. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Mid-valley cultural timeline Apr 3, 2009
1914 The Albany Carnegie Library opens. 1915 Philadelphia s Liberty Bell visits Albany. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
• Book lovers, choose your costumes Apr 3, 2009
Swetnam, a professor of English at Idaho State University, will talk about events from the library's early history and discuss how it was almost a Carnegie Library, but not quite. This program has funding from the Idaho Humanities Council. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
You can feast at a library, but its costs are no fiction Mar 29, 2009
Before I get to my frets about the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, a treasure that must do more with less each passing day, let me celebrate its wonder ... Barbara Mistick, president of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, can boast that the 19 branches drew more visitors than the Steelers and Pirates combined last year, but that doesn't buy any books or computer time ... About 70 percent of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's revenue comes from that RAD tax. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
History of Berrien available thanks mainly to one man Mar 28, 2009
What is interesting is that Coolidge himself in his listing within his own publication and in other biographical sketches written to introduce him at lectures, omits the school entirely, speaking only of his 'grammar school years" being followed by his studies at the University of Michigan, where he graduated from the literary department in 1863 and his subsequent years at the Cambridge Law School, from which he graduated in 1865 before joining his father, Henry H. Coolidge, in the practice of... (Niles Star, MI)
Grammar School opened in 1916 Mar 20, 2009
He was a favorite of Sonoma officialdom, having previously designed the City Hall (opened in 1908) and Carnegie Library (1913, now the visitors bureau). The bids for construction of the Grammar School edifice were opened in July 1914, granting the contract to R. H. Ingraham for 31,000, the exact amount available from a recent bond issue. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
SUBVERSE: Greed and need Mar 17, 2009
Travelling through the broken small towns of the Great Plains, i've been struck by what is often the one lasting monument in an otherwise bleak community the Carnegie Library, as much a path to citizenship and the world's great minds for Mexican meat packers now as it was for poor Irish immigrants a century ago. Enlightened wealth may seem oxymoronic in this hard year, a time when four million Americans have lost their jobs since the start of the Great Recession while bailed out bank executives... (India Times, India)
Crazy Mocha Coffee Co. adding two stores Mar 14, 2009
Zeff expects the location to thrive due to the amount of new development activity happening around it, including a new Carnegie Library branch to be built around the corner and new residential housing in the works in a project called Federal Hill further up the street, where at least 60 townhouses are in development. There hasn t been any life in that corner for a long time, said Zeff of the North Side location, expected to open by the end of summer. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Parkway victim may have been confused Mar 11, 2009
Mr. Brazell had been retired for several years from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland, Mrs. Payne said. A library spokeswoman yesterday said his employment there could not be confirmed. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Penguins Notebook: Malkin's monster-like season on verge of hitting 100 mark (Today) Mar 7, 2009
In a series of charity drives, the Penguins will collect non-perishable food and cash for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank at their home game Tuesday against Florida, children's books and cash for Carnegie Library branches March 20 against Los Angeles, and clothing or cash for Goodwill March 28 against the New York Rangers. First published on March 7, 2009 at 12:00 am Online: Print: Copyright. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
A shining star - Schwanke’s exuberance for news fueled a 42-year-long career Mar 7, 2009
This was, say, in the late 1950s, at the Carnegie library downtown, where the Missoula Art Museum is housed now. Inside: Lynn (Stetler at the time), with her girlhood chums, feeding her reading fetish. (Missoulian, MT)
Arbor Day celebrations Mar 6, 2009
On Wednesday at 11 a.m. the ceremony commemorating the holiday will take place at 11 a.m. near the old Carnegie Library building in the Plaza. Mayor Ken Brown will give an official proclamation and Sonoma Parks Supervisor Dave Chavoya will plant an Arbutus 'marina,' commonly known as a strawberry tree. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Clough retires from Santa's Castle after five seasons Mar 6, 2009
Clough fondly remembers the landmark from her own childhood, when she would help her grandfather, who served as caretaker of the structure when it was Storm Lake's Carnegie Library. The Castle had a successful holiday season with over 6,000 visitors, but Clough says each year the project becomes more and more labor intensive. (Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, IA)
What lies within: 'Little Person' tells five stories of self-identity Mar 5, 2009
Sponsored by the Renee Crown Honors Program, the play began its showing Tuesday night and will run through Thursday in room 220 of Carnegie Library. Audience members at the first show laughed and looked on in awe (and some confusion) as the cast performed a host of weird and slightly off-beat scenes. (Daily Orange, NY)
Students search for identity in independent play, "Little Person" Mar 4, 2009
Sponsored by the Ren;e Crown Honors Program, the play will run for three nights, from Tuesday to Thursday, in room 220 of Carnegie Library. The five skits combine dancing, singing, visual presentations, audience interaction and YouTube videos to form a collaborative theater experience. (Daily Orange, NY)
Learning about trees Mar 3, 2009
This tree will be planted on the north side of the old Carnegie Library building, where the Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau now resides ... A new, free self-guided, tree-and-bird tour map of the Plaza is now available at Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau which is located in the old Carnegie Library next to the City Hall. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Lake Region Library Board hopes policy, cameras help stem undesirable behavior Mar 3, 2009
Even the old Carnegie Library was just across the street from what was the high school and now is Central Middle School. Chattin worked at the old library for eight years and has served in the new library for five and has a fair amount of experience with the after school routines of 10 to 13 year-olds. (Devils Lake Daily Journal, ND)
New Granada Theater benefits from slots Feb 27, 2009
Its central location, near the Hill District's new Carnegie Library branch and a proposed Kuhn's grocery, could make it a perfect anchor for future development, History & Landmarks officials said. In the past, there has been talk about converting the upper floors of the theater into loft apartments with perhaps space for artists on the ground floor, in keeping with the building's history. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Turlock bikers get OK for park Feb 25, 2009 Carnegie Library of Homestead gets $150,000 grant Feb 19, 2009 Poetry Forum utters its final verse Feb 13, 2009 Old Stone Inn nominated for historic status Feb 11, 2009 A full week of Abe activities Feb 8, 2009 Humidity problems threaten book collection Feb 8, 2009 Workshop helps clean water for Third World Feb 8, 2009
The council voted 5-0 to delay a vote on authorizing the use of eminent domain to take two properties on Florence Street near the historic Carnegie Library until the March 10 meeting. Ash Pirayou, one of the property owners, said the city gave him an "unfair, low-ball offer" to buy his property and sent that offer in an unsigned e-mail. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Book brigade Feb 25, 2009
They duplicated an event in 1913, when volunteers carried the 3,200-volume collection from Second and Ferry to the new Carnegie Library at Third and Ferry. Although it was raining on Monday and many students wore no rain gear, most said they were having fun. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Allegheny County Council President Rich Fitzgerald came to the Carnegie Library of Homestead yesterday bearing a significant gift -- a $150,000 check from the county Department of Economic Development ... Mr. Lloyd also announced a new web site and new ticket sales service for the Carnegie Library Music Hall, which will be easier for those who want tickets to use and will increase the music hall's profits by about $1,000-$1,500 per show. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
On a blustery rainy night, the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall was more crowded than usual, the audience largely of Dr. Hazo's generation and familiar with his work. The poet himself greeted many of them at the door as though they were guests at his own home. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Yesterday, Carnegie Library archivist Greg Priore confirmed that the archives contain a ledger of accounts from The Old Stone Tavern from 1793-1796. He said the ledger did not contain an address except for Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The free event will start at 11:30 a.m. at the Woods Run branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1201 Woods Run Ave. Visit the library Web site at www ... The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville branch will have family-friendly Lincoln-themed activities starting at 4:30 p.m. The event is appropriate for children ages 7 and up ... The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Beechview branch will offer "Lincoln, a 200th Birthday Celebration" at 5:30 p.m. The library is at 1910 Broadway... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
(AP) - Leaders of the foundation that raised $4 million to restore the Jeffersonville Carnegie Library to house a valuable, rare book collection are planning an appeal to keep the collection and fix problems threatening it. Officers of The Remnant Trust, a public educational foundation, have said the Warder Park library's recurring temperature and humidity problems could damage the 1,000-volume collection. (FOX19.com, OH)
Last fall, the Braddock Pot Shop -- a ceramics workshop operated by the Braddock Carnegie Arts Program in the basement of the Carnegie Library -- took on an additional role: North America's first water filter factory. At Mayor John Fetterman's urging, AmeriCorps agreed to make a former volunteer a full-time employee in the factory to produce ceramic cones that filter bacteria from water. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
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