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Dublin City Libraries is the public library service for Dublin, Ireland. It is largest library authority in the Republic of Ireland , serving over half a million people [ 1 ] and around 2.6 million visits annually [ 2 ] through a network of 21 branch libraries and a number of specialist services.
Marsh's Library, situated in St. Patrick's Close, adjacent to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland is a well-preserved library of the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment. When it opened to the public in 1707 it was the first public library in Ireland. It was built to the order of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh and has a collection of over ...
Alameda County Library. The Alameda County Library, in Alameda County, California, is a public library system that provides services from eleven branch libraries in the cities of Albany, Dublin, Fremont, Newark and Union City and the unincorporated communities of Castro Valley, Cherryland and San Lorenzo. According to 2005/2006 statistics, the ...
846 (pre-pandemic numbers) [ 1] Website. www .columbuslibrary .org. The Columbus Metropolitan Library ( CML) is a public library system in Franklin County, Ohio, in the Columbus metropolitan area. The library serves an area of 872,000 residents, has a collection of 1,483,433 volumes, and circulates 17,262,267 items per year.
The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in Dublin. It was established in Ireland in 1953, [ 1 ] to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. [ 2 ] The present museum, on the grounds of Dublin Castle, opened on 7 February 2000, the 125th anniversary of Beatty's birth and was ...
The headquarters for the library system is in Dublin, Georgia and the system serves a population of over 83,000 people across 2,011 square miles. [2] ORLS is a member of PINES , a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. [3]
The National Library of Ireland was established by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act 1877, which provided that the bulk of the collections in the possession of the Royal Dublin Society, should be vested in the then Department of Science and Art for the benefit of the public and of the Society, and for the purposes of the Act.
The library, at the centre of the extended frontage, was slightly projected forward and was more elaborate than the town hall, with an ornate open pediment above the front door, full-height pilasters flanking each of the bays, panels containing swags above the first floor windows, and a long balustraded parapet at roof level, broken by a round ...