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  Lenox Library leaders debate land sale - The Boston Globe
The rotting beams supporting the cupola were among the surprises the library encountered after it started renovations in 2002 of an interior plagued by weeping walls, peeling ceilings, and pigeon guano 4 feet deep in the attic.
Lenox, home to Tanglewood, is a community of 6,000 whose summer population nearly doubles, and vacationers are among the library's 50,000 annual patrons.
Adding to the library controversy was word that the board had sold $213,010 worth of materials from its collection, including two letters from Abraham Lincoln and one from Thomas Jefferson.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2007/03/18/lenox_library_leaders_debate_land_sale   (1213 words)

  
  New York Public Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its status as one of the world's leading libraries is confirmed by its possession of (for instance) a Gutenberg Bible and a Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
The library consolidated with The New York Free Circulating Library in February, 1901, and Andrew Carnegie donated $5.2 million to construct branch libraries, with the proviso that the City of New York fund their maintenance and operations.
The main Research Library (now known as the Humanities and Social Science Library) was built on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan between 40th and 42nd Streets on the former site of the Croton Resevoir, and was dedicated on May 23, 1911, opening the next day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_Public_Library   (2086 words)

  
 Lenox Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On the ninth of October, 1856, six visionary citizens of Lenox petitioned the County Court for the ability to incorporate the Lenox Library Association.
The next century and a half saw the Library grow from 200 books to 87,000 items as well as receive extraordinary collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, furniture and art.
In celebration of the Lenox Library’s nearly 150 years of service to the local community, we have established the 150th Anniversary Fund, which will support three specific projects that highlight unique aspects of the organization.
lenoxlib.org /150thcampaign.php   (192 words)

  
 Lenox Library, Lenox, Massachusetts
Dawn rosy-fingered its way into Lenox on June 12th, into a Lenox blissfully unaware that an extraordinary drama was about to unfold at the Lenox Library...
As I walked into the Library I was met, not by the usual quiet murmur, but by a definitely unquiet discussion between librarian and one of the many volunteers who give their time and good efforts to the library in admirable fashion.
And since I understand that the Library is open Thursday nights in the winter and is about to open on Tuesday nights as well, it poses even more of a threat to Merdehoc’s, how do you say it, “ratings.” Men have killed for less.
www.berkshireweb.com /plexus/libraries/lenoxlib.html   (935 words)

  
 New Lenox Public Library District
You'll find census records, military records, immigration records, and much more.
Chat Live with a librarian during library hours (note, you must subscribe to each service in order to connect directly and chat):
and tell us why you love your library!
newlenox.lib.il.us   (105 words)

  
 Eames, Wilberforce - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Newark, N.J. He joined the staff of the Lenox Library in New York City in 1885 and became its librarian in 1895.
After 1911 he was bibliographer of the New York Public Library, of which the Lenox had become a part.
messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Eames-Wi   (108 words)

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