22 Facts About Carnegie library

Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

At first, Carnegie library libraries were almost exclusively in places with which he had a personal connection—namely his birthplace in Scotland and the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, his adopted hometown.

Yet, beginning in the middle of 1899, Carnegie library substantially increased funding to libraries outside these areas.

Carnegie library started erecting libraries in places with which he had personal associations.

The first of Carnegie's public libraries, Dunfermline Carnegie Library, was in his birthplace, Dunfermline, Scotland.

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When Bertram received a letter requesting a Carnegie library, he sent the applicant a questionnaire inquiring about the town's population, whether it had any other libraries, how large its book collection was, and what its circulation figures were.

Until 1898, only one Carnegie library was commissioned in the United States outside Southwestern Pennsylvania: a Carnegie library in Fairfield, Iowa, commissioned in 1892.

Rather than insisting on his libraries being racially integrated, Carnegie library funded separate libraries for African Americans in the South.

Carnegie's grants were very large for the era, and his library philanthropy is one of the most costly philanthropic activities, by value, in history.

Carnegie library continued funding new libraries until shortly before his death in 1919.

Later in Pennsylvania, while working for the local telegraph company in Pittsburgh, Carnegie borrowed books from the personal library of Colonel James Anderson.

Carnegie library opened his collection to his workers every Saturday.

Carnegie library's libraries were the best-known expression of this philanthropic goal.

In 1900, Carnegie granted funds to build the Anderson Memorial Library, in memory of Colonel James Anderson, at the College of Emporia.

Carnegie library required public support rather than making endowments because, as he wrote:.

Effects of Carnegie's library philanthropy coincided with a peak in new town development and library expansion in the US.

In 1902, Carnegie offered funds to build a library in Dunedin in New Zealand.

Carnegie library's architects designed the Pittsburgh neighborhood branches so that one librarian could oversee each entire operation.

Mark Twain, a supporter of Carnegie library, claimed that Carnegie library used philanthropy as a tool to buy fame.

Carnegie library established charitable trusts which have continued his philanthropic work.

Carnegie library found that 276 were unchanged, 286 had been expanded, 175 had been remodeled, 243 had been demolished, and others had been converted to other uses.

Some Carnegie Libraries, have been replaced in name with that of city libraries such as the Epiphany library in New York City.