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e Heart of the Community [The Librari\es We Love Treasured Libraries of the United States and Canada Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson Berkshire Publishing Group and Leslie Burger, Nancy Kranich, Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Tom Phelps, Sally Reed, and others Berkshire Publishing grouP great barrington, Massachusetts Copyright © 2007 by Berkshire Publishing Group All rights reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published by: Berkshire books are available at special quantity discounts to Berkshire Publishing Group LLC use as premiums and sales promotions. Custom editions are also 314 Main Street available. For more information, please write to Special Sales, Great Barrington, Massachusetts 01230 Berkshire Publishing Group, 314 Main Street, Great Barrington, Massachusetts 01230, [email protected]. www.berkshirepublishing.com Printed in China Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heart of the community : the libraries we love : treasured libraries of the United States and Canada / edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-9770159-2-0 (alk. paper) 1. Public libraries—United States. 2. Public libraries—Canada. 3. Libraries and community. 4. Libraries— United States—Pictorial works. 5. Libraries—Canada—Pictorial works. 6. Library buildings—United States—Pictorial works. 7. Library buildings—Canada—Pictorial works. 8. Library architecture—United States—Pictorial works. 9. Library architecture—Canada—Pictorial works. I. Christensen, Karen, 1957– II. Levinson, David, 1947– Z731.H38 2007 027.473—dc22 2006033460 †¢ Contents iv Advisory Board v Editorial and Production Staff vi Mary Pope Osborne on the Magic of Libraries vii Henry Winkler: Library Memory viii Library Locator xi Introduction: The Libraries We Love 2 Treasured Libraries 163 Libraries of Distinction 168 Index ß Advisory Board Clara Bohrer, Director, West Bloomfield Township Public Library Leslie Burger, President, American Library Association; Director, Princeton Public Library Barbara Chubb, President, Canadian Library Association Dana Cummings, Coordinator of Electronic Services, Simon’s Rock College of Bard Rebecca Hamilton, State Librarian, Louisiana State Library Kathleen R. T. Imhoff, Executive Director, Lexington Public Library Deborah Jacobs, Director, Seattle Public Library Nancy Kranich, Past President, American Library Association Kathleen de la Peña McCook; Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House series author Tom Phelps, Director of Library Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities Sally Reed, Executive Director, Friends of Libraries, U.S.A. Loriene Roy, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information Science Jervey Tervalon, author of Understand This Nancy Tessman, Director, Salt Lake City Public Library Bernard Vavrek, Director, The Center for Rural Librarianship at Clarion University Peter R. Young, Director, National Agricultural Library iv ß Editorial and Production Staff Editors Karen Christensen and David Levinson Project Coordinators Carrie Owens and Marcy Ross Writer Pauline Clarke Cover and Interior Designer Joseph DiStefano Compositor Brad Walrod/High Text Graphics, Inc. Editorial and Production Staff Scott Eldridge II, Rachel Christensen, Tom Christensen, Jake Makler Copyeditor Mike Nichols Proofreader and Indexer Mary Bagg Printer Kings Time Printing Press, Ltd. v Mary Pope Osborne on the Magic of Libraries Mary Pope Osborne, the author of the popular Magic Tree House books for children, happens to spend part of her time in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (where Berkshire Publishing Group is based) and agreed to be on the advisory board for Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love. Read- ers of her books know that librarians are important participants in the Magic Tree House stories. Her characters Jack and Annie go back in time, through magical books laid out by the librarian of Camelot, Morgan Le Fay, and many of their adventures are part of a quest to become “Master Li- brarians.” Mary eloquently expresses her own love of libraries in the extract below: When I was young in New York City and wanted to be a writer, I started spending all my free time reading and writing in libraries. I sat for many hours at the Jefferson Market Library and the Hud- son Park Library in my neighborhood in Greenwich Village. I discovered the Mechanic’s Library in midtown. I was a regular visitor at the libraries of the Carl Jung Institute and the Museum of Natural History. I loved the reading room at the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and the austere stacks of the New York University Bobst Library where a village resident could apply for a community card. I spent a great deal of time searching for old books about mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. For a collection of mermaid legends, I found a Japanese Sea Queen at the Jung Library and an Algonquin waterfall maid at the library of the Museum of Natural His- tory. When I decided to write a book called American Tall Tales, I went to the 42nd Street Library and found the first article writ- ten about Johnny Appleseed in a nineteenth-century Harper’s Magazine, and I read an 1848 play featuring New York tall tale hero, Mose the Fireboy. For my book, My Brother’s Keeper, I studied old newspapers at the New York Historical Society; and for another book, My Secret ß War, I studied articles published the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. When I began the Magic Tree House series, I spent years visiting all my favorite libraries to research dinosaurs, knights, mummies, pirates, ninjas, the rainforest, and dozens of other sub- jects and places. The imaginary worlds I’ve discovered in libraries over the years are as real to me as if I’d truly visited them. That’s why libraries seem magical to me. And that’s why the mysterious heroine in the Magic Tree House books—the woman who sends Jack and Annie on all their missions through time and space—is (you guessed it) a librarian. vi Everett Bainbridge Island Regina Seattle Washington Wolfville Portland Montana North Dakota Maine Westmount Darby Minnesota Oregon Bismarck New Camden Hampshire Vermont Laconia Brooklyn Center Woodstock Idaho St. Paul Toronto Utica Brookline South Dakota Merrill Michigan Boston Glenn New York MaNssoarcthhus eAttdsams Wyoming Wisconsin Howell Clinton Township Highland Falls NorfolkBarrBinagrntosntable Naugatuck R. I. Belvidere BloomWfieelsdt Southfield Warren CCeonntneecrteicautch Dubuque Pennsylvania Queens Reno Nevada Orem Salt Lake City Nebraska Iowa Batavia Youngstown Pittsburgh Darby Princeton Rock Island New Jersey ß Boulder Indiana Ohio Belcamp Toms River Delaware San Jose Utah Sheperdstown Denver Illinois Cincinnati West Maryland Virginia Shawnee Mission Colorado California Newport News Evansville Huntington A t l a n t i c Kansas Virginia Lexington Ojai Missouri Newburgh O c e a n Aztec Kentucky Glendale Pierce City Rugby North Carolina Los Angeles Arizona Oklahoma Eureka Springs Tennessee Albuquerque Holdenville Memphis Arkansas South P a c i f i c New Mexico Carolina Phoenix Birmingham Athens O c e a n Georgia Cross Plains Mississippi Alabama Montgomery Texas Louisiana Alaska Round Rock Austin New Orleans Anchorage G u l f Houston o f Library Tampa Miami M e x i c o Florida Shores Zip Code Library Page Zip Code Library Page 01247 North Adams Public Library 2 25443 Shepherdstown Public Library 44 02116 Boston Public Library–Central Library 4 25701 Cabell County Public Library 46 02445 Brookline Public Library 6 30606 Athens-Clarke County Library 48 02630 Sturgis Library 8 33138 Brockway Memorial Library 50 02806 Barrington Public Library 10 33607 West Tampa Library–Tampa-Hillsborough County Library 52 03246 Laconia Public Library 12 35203 Birmingham Central Public Library 54 04843 Camden Public Library 14 37733 Thomas Hughes Public Library 56 05091 Norman Williams Public Library 16 38111 Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library–Memphis Public 06058 Norfolk Library 18 Library and Information Center 58 06770 Howard Whittemore Memorial Library 20 40504 Village Branch–Lexington Public Library 60 08542 Princeton Public Library 22 44514 Poland Branch–Public Library of Youngstown 08753 Toms River Branch–Ocean County Library 24 and Mahoning County 62 10928 Highland Falls Public Library 26 45219 Corryville Branch–Public Library of Cincinnati and 11355 Flushing Library–Queens Borough Library System 28 Hamilton County 64 11720 Middle Country Public Library 30 47630 Ohio Township Public Library System–Central Library 66 13501 Utica Public Library 32 47711 Oaklyn Branch–Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library 68 15213 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh–Main 34 48038 Clinton-Macomb Public Library 70 16365 Warren Public Library 36 48076 Southfield Public Library 72 19023 Darby Free Library 38 48323 West Bloomfield Township Public Library 74 21009 Abingdon Branch–Harford County Public Library 40 48843 Howell Carnegie District Library 76 23607 West Avenue Library–Newport News Library System 42 52001 Carnegie-Stout Public Library 78
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