10 Facts About Newberry Library

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Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities and located on Washington Square in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Library is named to honor the founding bequest from the estate of philanthropist Walter Loomis Newberry.

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Newberry Library was established in 1887 as the result of a bequest by Walter Loomis Newberry Library, an early Chicago resident and business leader involved in banking, shipping, real estate, and other commercial ventures.

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Newberry Library included in his will a provision of funds for the creation of a "free public library" should his daughters die without heirs.

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The Newberry Library's medical department, created in 1890, is an example of this emphasis.

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6.

The Newberry Library immediately transferred its holdings in this area, including its copy of Audubon's Birds of America.

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Stanley Pargellis, the fifth Newberry Library librarian, emphasized not just the "passive" collection of materials but the active orchestration of programs and events to encourage scholarly inquiries into the insights those materials might contain.

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The Newberry Library cooperated with the Chicago Historical Society in creating the 2004 Encyclopedia of Chicago, a landmark single-volume work that covered the city's history from 1630 to 2000.

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Newberry Library offers a variety of exhibitions, meet-the-author lectures, continuing education classes, concerts, teacher programs, and other public programming related to its collections.

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10.

The Newberry Library Award is an honor bestowed to individuals, and in the case of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, organizations, who have made "outstanding contributions to the humanities, particularly in fields of endeavor related to the Newberry's collection.

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