[Publib] Carnegie Libraries - help us celebrate!

[Paul Ericsson]

Good morning Janice --

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary.

The Bemidji Public Library celebrated 100 years of service to the 
community this year.

We marked the event with a morning celebration open to the 
community.  Without a doubt everyone that attended had a wonderful 
time. One of the things that turned out well, was the handout for the 
event.  It was done on 11"x17" paper and folded in half to be a 4 
page, 8 1/2x11 brochure (local copy store did the copies very 
inexpensive).  On the inside spread we put a long timeline acorss the 
17" paper, noting about a dozen milestones in our 100 year 
history.  At the bottom were three small pix of each of the three 
buildings we've been in, the first being a Carnegie building.  The 
pix of that one is attached.   We also had buttons made with a pix of 
the original building to handout to attendees.  And staff all wore 
1907 clothing for the day, that we borrowed from a local theater group.

A paragraph from our handout gives a brief history of the Carnegie building:
" In 1905, the city's first charter was adopted and contained a 
provision to acquire a free public library and to appoint a library 
board. The city of Bemidji founded the Bemidji Public Library on 
February 4, 1907.  By 1909, the combined efforts of the city, the 
Woman's Study Club and the library board secured a $15,000 grant from 
the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. A site was chosen overlooking Lake 
Bemidji, and a Classic Revival style building was completed.  The 
building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980."

I will put a copy of the handout and a button in snailmail for you. I 
can send you an attachment of the Publisher file for the handout if 
that helps. Feel welcome to call or keep the conversation alive on 
email.  We are especially proud of the combined effort of Library 
staff, Library Board, Friends of the Library, local perfomers and 
elected officials that planned and participated in the event.

Paul

Paul Ericsson
Branch Manager, Bemidji Public Library
218-751-3963
ericssonp at krls.org






At 06:11 AM 11/17/2007, tjmcardle at comcast.net wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We are holding a 90th anniversary celebration for our Granby Library Carnegie
>Library building on December 1st in Granby, Massachusetts .
>
>If your library is a Carnegie building please send us a postcard to 
>help us mark
>this event! We'd love to hear from Carnegie Libraries far and wide!
>
>Please send it to:
>
>Granby Public Library
>1 Library lane
>Granby, MA. 01033
>Telephone 1-413-467-3320
>
>
>Thank you!
>
>Janice McArdle
>Youth Service Librarian
>Granby Public Library
>Granby, MA. 01033
>Telephone 1-413-467-3320
>tjmcardle at comcast.net
>
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