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Thomas County Public Library System

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The Thomas County Public Library System (TCPLS) is a public library system serving Thomas County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The headquarters of the system is the Thomas County Public Library located in Thomasville. There is one Carnegie library in the system, located in Boston, Georgia.

TCPLS is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia.[2] Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books.[3] The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text.[4]

History

The Thomas County Public Library System was founded in 1988 after a decision to separate from the Moultrie-Colquitt Regional Library System. On its own Thomas County had three libraries and one bookmobile, but all were small and lacked the space needed for a county library system to grow. In order to increase the size of the library system to better serve the population, a referendum was passed in 1992 to construct new libraries in Coolidge, Meigs, and Thomasville. The Boston Carnegie Library would additionally receive funding for a remodel and expansion, the Ochlocknee library would be remodeled, and the Pavo library would be replaced.[5]

The new building in Thomasville was set to become the headquarters for the system. Construction of the 23,000-square foot building began in 1992 and was dedicated to the town of Thomasville in April 1993. The smaller 2,000-square foot branch libraries in Meigs and Coolidge opened at the end of that year. Due to the success of six newly constructed or renovated libraries, the library placed second in the nation for new library cards per capita in an American Library Association contest in 1994.[5]

Boston Carnegie Library

The Boston Carnegie Library building as of 2014

El 9 de septiembre de 1912, el alcalde de Boston, Georgia , envió una solicitud a Andrew Carnegie para obtener fondos para la biblioteca de su "pequeña ciudad en crecimiento y emprendedora". [ 6 ] La Fundación Carnegie aceptó la petición y otorgó a la ciudad un préstamo de $6,000 con la condición de que la ciudad de Boston pagara una cuota anual de mantenimiento de $600 para el edificio. [ 7 ]

El edificio fue diseñado principalmente por Charles Edward Choate y E. D. Ivey. Choate había diseñado previamente las bibliotecas Carnegie en Eatonton y Fitzgerald, e Ivey era un arquitecto oriundo de Boston. El edificio ha funcionado como biblioteca desde su finalización el 3 de diciembre de 1912. Durante el referéndum de 1992, se realizó una remodelación interior y se añadió una ampliación en la parte trasera del edificio. [ 6 ]

Sucursales

Sistemas de bibliotecas en condados vecinos

Referencias

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Panorama actual de las bibliotecas de Georgia 2016" (PDF) . Consultado el 12 de junio de 2017 .
  2. ↑ "PINES - Acerca de" . Consultado el 12 de junio de 2017 .
  3. ↑ "Datos sobre PINES" (PDF) . Consultado el 12 de junio de 2017 .
  4. ↑ "GALILEO - Acerca de" . Consultado el 12 de junio de 2017 .
  5. 1 2 Historias de bibliotecas (PDF) . 1997. pág. 17. Consultado el 12 de junio de 2017 . 
  6. 1 2 Walker, Jr, Robert Burke (1994). Las bibliotecas Carnegie de Georgia: un estudio de su historia, sus condiciones existentes y su conservación (PDF) . Athens, Georgia. págs. 39–41 . Recuperado el 12 de junio de 2017 . {{cite book}}: CS1 mantenimiento: falta el editor de ubicación ( enlace )
  7. ↑ Jones, Theodore (1997). Bibliotecas Carnegie en Estados Unidos . Nueva York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3.
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