Description:Chapters: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative, Huntsville Madison County Public Library. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Tuscaloosa Public Library is a city/county agency located in the city of Tuscaloosa, serving a population of over 171,000 in Tuscaloosa County in the state of Alabama, USA. The Library has 46,857 registered patrons that use the library on a regular basisroughly 28% of the population of the county. There are currently over 198,832 items (books, videos, audios, and etc.) cataloged in the system. The library currently has three service outlets: The Main Library, the Brown Branch and the Weaver-Bolden Branch. Tuscaloosa Public LibraryAn 1879 article in The Tuscaloosa Times marks the foundation of a library for Tuscaloosa. J.H. Fitts, Esq., endowed it with a subscription of $50.00 in cash and 100 valuable books. A large number of books belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association were turned over to the library and about 500 books were given by citizens. A "commodious room" housed the library, located over the store formerly occupied by Dr. John Little (Tuscaloosa Times). By the early 1900s the library had been relocated to a small one-room affair in the basement of the County Court House. The library soon outgrew the Court House rooms and moved to what is known as "The Old Searcy Home" (at 9th Street and 24th Avenue) in 1926. The library shared space with the County Board of Education. Five of the downstairs rooms were dedicated to the library: two of the rooms were used for office space and library files with the remaining three devoted to book stacks. The monthly appropriation for the library in 1946 was the "pitifully low sum" of $185.00. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=280995We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Public Libraries in Alabama: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative. To get started finding Public Libraries in Alabama: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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36
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157265898
Public Libraries in Alabama: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative
Description: Chapters: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative, Huntsville Madison County Public Library. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Tuscaloosa Public Library is a city/county agency located in the city of Tuscaloosa, serving a population of over 171,000 in Tuscaloosa County in the state of Alabama, USA. The Library has 46,857 registered patrons that use the library on a regular basisroughly 28% of the population of the county. There are currently over 198,832 items (books, videos, audios, and etc.) cataloged in the system. The library currently has three service outlets: The Main Library, the Brown Branch and the Weaver-Bolden Branch. Tuscaloosa Public LibraryAn 1879 article in The Tuscaloosa Times marks the foundation of a library for Tuscaloosa. J.H. Fitts, Esq., endowed it with a subscription of $50.00 in cash and 100 valuable books. A large number of books belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association were turned over to the library and about 500 books were given by citizens. A "commodious room" housed the library, located over the store formerly occupied by Dr. John Little (Tuscaloosa Times). By the early 1900s the library had been relocated to a small one-room affair in the basement of the County Court House. The library soon outgrew the Court House rooms and moved to what is known as "The Old Searcy Home" (at 9th Street and 24th Avenue) in 1926. The library shared space with the County Board of Education. Five of the downstairs rooms were dedicated to the library: two of the rooms were used for office space and library files with the remaining three devoted to book stacks. The monthly appropriation for the library in 1946 was the "pitifully low sum" of $185.00. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=280995We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Public Libraries in Alabama: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative. To get started finding Public Libraries in Alabama: Tuscaloosa Public Library, Mobile Public Library, Birmingham Public Library, Jefferson County Library Cooperative, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.