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The Huntsville-Madison County library may be a public, Carnegie library in urban center, Alabama. Supported in 1818, once Alabama was still a region of the Mississippi Territory, it’s the oldest continued library within the state. It absolutely was initial settled within the workplace of professional John Horatio Nelson Spotswood Jones, within the Boardman Building, that is currently a region of Constitution Hall Park. The Library conjointly occupied house within the inexperienced Academy from 1821 till Union troopers burned the varsity throughout the warfare, and stirred to borrowed areas many times till the Carnegie Library was opened in 1916. A brand new building was made to accommodate town and county growth, and opened in 1966.
The area enjoyed ascension with the inflow of state workers concerned within the development of the program, together with the us Army and independent agency, and therefore the library eventually required extra space as early as 1969. Library officers began designing for a brand new building in 1983.
The current facility’s main branch, generally observed as “Fort Book” for its fortress-like look, opened on Monroe Street in Apr 1987 and is the headquarters for the urban center Madison County library System. The building contains 123,000 sq. Feet (11,400 m2), contains a capaciousness of 930 and contains over 530,000 volumes, with body offices settled on the third floor. The library had a circulation of one,915,548 in 2007, creating it the highest-circulating library in Alabama.
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