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In 1964, The Woodland View Library opened in a strip center at 61 st & Lewis with Pat Woodrum as the Librarian. Ten years later she became the System’s Director. It was a popular branch from the very beginning, although it was small and had little room for programs.
The library was formally opened to the public on the 4th day of July, 1874, in a building on the south side of Main Street between First and Second Streets. The library was organized by the efforts of the ladies of Woodland, and the entainments [sic] for the benefits were given under their auspices.
Mar 29, 2024 · The earliest libraries in America were private or academic collections, open to very few. Then, in 1731, Benjamin Franklin and a group of Philadelphia men invented the subscription library. They turned what we'd now call a book group into a library by agreeing to pay an annual fee to fund the purchase of books available to all members.
This exhibition tells the story of the American public library system, its community impact, and the librarians who made it possible—from the founding of the first US libraries through the first one hundred years of service.
In 1850, school-district libraries were initiated in Canada. Public servant Joseph Howe started one in Nova Scotia, and politician Egerton Ryerson started one in Ontario. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island followed suit in 1858 and 1877, respectively.
Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but Franklin had an idea. He conceived of a library with a subscription fee, the Library Company of Philadelphia, which he founded in 1731....
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