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Designated NHL. February 24, 1986. Designated CP. August 14, 1973. The McKim Building is the main branch of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, described upon its 1895 opening as a "palace for the people", contains the library's research collection, exhibition rooms, and administrative offices.
Central Library (Somerville, Massachusetts) / 42.38583°N 71.09444°W / 42.38583; -71.09444. The Central Library is the main branch of the Somerville, Massachusetts, public library system. It is an architecturally distinguished Renaissance Revival brick building designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton and was built in 1914 with funding ...
The Boston Public Library contains approximately 24 million items, [7] making it the third-largest public library in the United States behind the federal Library of Congress and New York Public Library, which is also privately endowed. In 2014, the library held more than 10,000 programs, all free to the public, and lent 3.7 million materials.
Boston Library Society (1792-1939) Boston Medical Library, the largest academic medical library in the world. Combined with Harvard's medical collections, it is also known as the Countway Library of Medicine. Congregational Library, a denominationally-independent research library of religious literature, located in Boston's Beacon Hill ...
C/W MARS (Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing) List of Carnegie libraries in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Massachusetts Library System. Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC) Metro Boston Library Network (MBLN) Minuteman Library Network (MLN) North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
The Boston University Libraries at Boston University include the Mugar Memorial Library, the main library on the Charles River campus, and several specialized libraries. These specialized libraries have targeted collections and services for area-specific research. The Law, Theology, and Medical Libraries, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival ...
The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special collections center in Boston, Massachusetts with research, educational, and exhibition programs relating to historical geography. It is the steward of the Boston Public Library ’s map collection, consisting of approximately a quarter million geographic ...
The North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) is a consortium of 25 libraries on the North Shore of Massachusetts working to improve library service through automation. Seventeen public libraries, seven college libraries, and one special library are members. NOBLE was the first automated resource sharing network in the state and the first ...