Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901
Science
Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901
American Library Association; Library science -- Congresses
_Whitewater._ Public Library. Gift of $3000, for a memorial collection
of books, from Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Cook.
NOTE.--Foreign gifts include: For British provinces, Vancouver Public
Library, $50,000 from Andrew Carnegie--For Canada, McGill University of
Montreal four gifts ($14,000, $1300, $1000, $500) for various purposes:
Ottawa Public Library, $100,000 from Andrew Carnegie; Windsor Public
Library, $20,000 from Andrew Carnegie; Sidney Public Library, $15,000
from Andrew Carnegie; Winnipeg Public Library, $100,000 from Andrew
Carnegie; Halifax Art School and Public Library, $75,000 from Andrew
Carnegie--For Trinidad, Cuba, bequest for public library from Mary B.
Carret--For Scotland, Glasgow district libraries, £100,000 from Andrew
Carnegie; Greenock, £5000 from Andrew Carnegie; Hawick, £10,000 from
Andrew Carnegie.
WAUKESHA CONFERENCE
--------------------------------------------------------------------|
SUMMARY BY STATES OF GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. |
=====================================================================
|No.|Gifts in |Money for |Books. |
| |money. |buildings. | |
--------------------+---+-------------+---------------+-------------|
N. Atlantic Division| | | | |
Maine | 9| $6,200 | $145,847.26| |
New Hampshire | 4| 11,000 | 10,000+ | |
Vermont | 2| 2,000 | 50,000 | |
Massachusetts | 44| 280,550 | 500,000 | 6,508 v.+ |
Rhode Island | 10| 532,000 | 175,000 | 566 v.++|
Connecticut | 28| 199,887 | 154,000 | 6,265 v.+ |
| | | | 10,000 pm. |
New York | 74| 128,030.86| 6,025,655+ | 29,737 v. |
| | | | 178 pm. |
New Jersey | 15| 72,000 | 50,000+ | 7,623 v. |
| | | | 2,366 pm. |
Pennsylvania | 45| 1,635,906 | 285,000+ | 13,149 v. |
| | | | 2,705 pm. |
S. Atlantic Div. | | | | |
Delaware | | | | |
Maryland | 2| 26,250 | 50,000 | |
District of Columbia| | | | |
Virginia | 6| 251,000 | 150,000 | law library.|
West Virginia | 1| | 75,000 | |
North Carolina | 3| | 70,000 | 5,000 v. |
South Carolina | | | | |
Georgia | 2| | 20,000 | 960 v. |
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account