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Columbus Public Library Association minutes, January 1881 to April 1883
Minutes of the Columbus Public Library Association from its inception in January 1881 until April 1883
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Creator
Columbus Public Library Association (Columbus, Ga.)
Date of Original
1881-01/1883-04
Subject
Columbus Public Library Association (Columbus, Ga.)
Public libraries--Georgia--Columbus--History
Libraries and society--Georgia--Columbus--History
Books and reading--Georgia--Columbus--History
Columbus (Ga.)--Intellectual life
Libraries and community--Georgia--Columbus
Location
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
Medium
administrative records
minutes
records (documents)
Type
Text
Description
Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, 1881-1883 provides online access to early handwritten minutes of the Columbus Public Library Association, documenting the origin and initial development of the Columbus Public Library, later to become today's Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System. The online content presents 144 pages of minutes, providing historic page images with full transcriptions, and offering full-text searching as well as browsing by date. Reflecting the city's "New South" urban industrial prosperity, the Columbus Public Library Association Minutes offer insight into the complex role of the library as a social and cultural institution. They highlight the formation of gender, class, and racial identities and their effect on the development and operations of the Columbus Public Library. In a larger sense, they also speak to the role of the library as an institution in Georgia and the South., Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, 1881-1883 is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia and the Columbus Public Library of the Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Chattahoochee Valley Libraries
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