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The Fairfax County Library was established in 1939. [5] As of May 2015, there are 23 library branches, including eight regional branches, 14 community branches, one which assists people with disabilities. The library also oversees the county's Archives and Records Management Branch. The library's service area spans both the county and Fairfax ...
The company was chartered as a corporation in 1798 in an act passed by the General Assembly of Virginia. Druggist Edward Stabler was elected the first librarian and the library's first location is believed to have been housed in his apothecary shop. James Kennedy was elected the second librarian, and the library moved to his residence and place ...
The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and is located at 800 East Broad Street, two blocks from the Virginia State Capitol building.
Prince William Public Library System (PWPLS) is a public library system in Virginia started in 1965. The system consists of 11 branches that include six full-service branches and five neighborhood branches across Prince William County and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park . PWPLS serves over 1.4 million visitors in their branches every ...
Website. https://libraries.virginiabeach.gov. Virginia Beach Public Library (VBPL), located in Virginia Beach, Virginia is a comprehensive library system serving Virginia Beach, an independent city with a population of 450,000 in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia. The library supports the educational and leisure needs of citizens ...
Falls Church is the smallest independent city by area in Virginia. Since independent cities in Virginia are considered county-equivalents, it is also the smallest county-equivalent in the United States by area. The center of the city is the crossroads of Virginia State Route 7 (Broad St./Leesburg Pike) and U.S. Route 29 (Washington St./Lee ...
https://craftmemorial.lib.wv.us/. The Craft Memorial Library (CML) is a public library serving the city of Bluefield, West Virginia. CML also operates as part of the Mountain Library Network, a resource sharing consortium which unites public library services across West Virginia. The library is governed by a publicly elected board of trustees.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Virginia provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Virginia, where 3 public libraries were built from 2 grants (totaling $78,000) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1914. In addition, academic libraries were built at 4 institutions (totaling $175,000).