The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Carnegie institute

Collection:: Economics Books

Most institutions of similar character in this country charge admission at least on two or three days of the week, but the inscription over one of the entrances of Carnegie Institute—“Free to the People” —tells the story of the liberality of the donor, Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie Institute building is unique in that it houses under one roof a library, a museum of natural history, a department of fine arts, and a music hall. The fact that all these divisions are in one building might indicate to some that they are not comprehensive in their respective fields. but this is not the case. Each department takes rank with any separate institution of like character in the country. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the largest Car- negie library in the world. It is a free public circulating and reference library, open to all people. For more than thirty years it has been serving Pittsburgh, and in that compara- tively short time, it has grown from one main library with a staff of 16 people, a permanent collection of 16,000 books, and an annual circulation of 113,835 books, to a system of 10 iibraries, 2 sub-branch libraries, 18 adult deposit stations (such as at telephone exchanges, department store employes’ rest rooms, etc.); 14 high school libraries, 70 libraries in platoon schools, 8 school deposit stations (from which the community as well as school children draw books), and 12 schools, having 50 classroom collections. The staff now includes 290 people, and 2,304,912 books were sent during 1927 into the homes of Pittsburgh. This is twenty times the circulation of the first year. During the last ten years the number of books lent for home use has increased 85 per cent. Who uses these books? Are they read mostly by children? In 1927, the books read were almost equally divided between juvenile and adult. This means that on the whole, children and their elders run an almost even pace in reading. Did they read stories and novels largely? Only 57 per cent of the books lent were fiction. This means that 985,549 books of a more serious nature were borrowed for home reading in ad- dition to about 600,000 volumes used in the Central Library for study and research. The library has become a large factor in carrying on the educational work of Pittsburgh.

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