Carnegie Library

Carnegie Library, or Carnegie Library, is the name of libraries that the American steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie funded to give everyone access to a free public library. In total, he donated over $ 56 million. With this money, 2,509 libraries were built worldwide between 1883 and 1929.

The Carnegie Library in Grass Valley, CA, built in 1916

Examples:

• Carnegie Library (Reims) , France
• Terrell Carnegie Library , Texas, United States
• Carnegie Public Library (Tyler) , Texas, United States
• Belgrade University Library , Serbia
• Suva City Carnegie Library , Fiji

Several of the former libraries were later converted into museums, such as the Hanford Carnegie Museum in Hanford, California .

See also

• Carnegie Library
• Carnegie Free Library
• Carnegie Free Public Library

literature

• Abigail A. Van Slyck: Free to all. Carnegie libraries & American culture, 1890-1920. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998, ISBN 0-226-85032-3 .

Web links

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