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2. Pack Horse Library Project - Wikipedia

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   The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including ...

3. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Wikipedia

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   Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives is a collection of library and information resources. KDLA's mission is to serve " Kentucky 's need to know" through its services "assuring equitable access" to information and services. Many of the materials available from KDLA are public domain . KDLA's fair use statement: "Fair use" includes ...

4. The Public Library of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   The Public Library of Kentucky was opened to the public on April 27, 1872, inside the Central Market building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The library consisted of thousands of volumes of books, an art gallery and a museum. It was the dream of its founders to build a museum inside the library that would rival the British ...

5. List of Carnegie libraries in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   The following list of Carnegie libraries in Kentucky provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Kentucky, where 23 public libraries were built from 15 grants (totaling $795,300) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1899 to 1914. In addition, academic libraries were built at 4 institutions (totaling ...

6. Carnegie Library (Lexington, Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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   The Carnegie Library in Lexington, Kentucky was built in 1905 and served as Lexington's main library until 1989. It is now home of the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. [2] It is one of 29 sites on a National Park Service -recommended list of places to visit in Lexington, "Lexington, Kentucky: Athens of the West, a National Register of ...

7. Lexington Public Library - Wikipedia

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   The Lexington Public Library opened in 1905 in Lexington, Kentucky. It incorporated the collection of the former Lexington Library Company (est.1801) and the former Transylvania Library (est.1795). Today the main location of the Lexington Public Library system is Central Library along East Main Street connected to Park Plaza Apartments .