[PDF] A Study Of The History And Development Of The Flint River Regional Library eBook

Author : Margaret Howard
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Public libraries
ISBN :

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"This brief survey of the history of the development of libraries in Georgia serves as a background for the present study of the history and development of the Flint River Regional Library, a five-county system with headquarters in Griffin, Georgia. This particular library was chosen for three reasons: (1) its history had never been written, (2) its present director, Roberrt N. Smith, requested that a history of the Library be written, (3) the author is on the Library's staff and, therefore, has a deep interest in the subject. Since it is believed that the history and development of the Flint River Regional Library has been a reflection of public library development in Georgia, the study attempts to reveal these reflections"--Pages 10-11.

Author : Gary Flinn
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1439661006

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Flint is a city full of legacies overshadowed by tragedy. Read the stories of the innovations and surprising elements of the city's past. In the shadow of Flint's success as an industrial hub and the tragedy that is the water crisis that came to a head in 2014, the fascinating past of Flint has been largely forgotten. Local author Gary Flinn showcases the obscure and surprising elements of the Vehicle City's past, such as local Civil War hero Franklin Thompson who was actually Sarah Edmonds in disguise; the city's most prolific inventor, Lloyd Copeman, created the electric stove, flexible ice cube tray and automatic toaster; and even Thread Lake's Lakeside Amusement Park that offered seaplane rides and a giant roller coaster partly built over the water before closing in 1931. Flinn offers the reader the often-overlooked but fascinating history of Flint, including how the 2014 water crisis was a half century in the making.

Author : George Sylvan Bobinski
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation provided funding for 1,681 public library buildings in 1,412 U.S. communities between 1889 and 1923. This philanthropy had a great impact on the growth of public library development in the United States. Free public libraries supported by local taxation had begun with Boston in 1849 and slowly spread throughout the country. The Carnegie benefactions made them leap forward. This internationally famous celebrity chose libraries as one of the primary sources for his philanthropy. He also attached two conditions to his offer of money for a public library building--the local community had to provide a suitable site and formally agree to continuously support the library through local tax funds. The latter solidified acceptance of the concept of tax support for libraries.