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Miami-Dade Public Library System
The Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) is a system of libraries in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
The Miami-Dade Public Library System is a county department within Miami-Dade county government. The Board of County Commissioners is the governing body over the library system.
The Library Advisory Board serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of County Commissioners on public library issues, providing reports, recommendations, and guidance to the government of Miami-Dade County.
The service area of the Miami-Dade Public Library System is defined by the Miami-Dade Library Taxing District. The district includes the majority of the geographical boundaries of Miami-Dade County, including most of its 35 municipalities and all of unincorporated Miami-Dade County. The Miami-Dade Public Library System includes 50 libraries, two bookmobiles and one technobus. Along with its own branches, the Miami-Dade Public Library System also allows patrons of public libraries in the cities of Hialeah, Homestead, North Miami, and North Miami Beach to use MDPLS services.
The Miami-Dade Public Library System can trace its roots to April 7, 1894 with the opening of a reading room in Lemon City. One library was opened in the Lemon City public school, while in 1902, the Lemon City Library opened at 412 NE 61st Street. The Lemon City Library Association was established on February 4. 1902. The occasion took place at the house of Mrs. Cornelia Keys and was attended by the Village Improvement Association, which was founded in 1896 by the city’s leading ladies, who were instrumental in the development of the Lemon City Library Association. The Lemon City Library, like its counterpart in Coconut Grove, also operated as a circulation or subscription library.
On June 15, 1895, the Pine Needles Club opened the Coconut Grove Library. Louise Whitfield Carnegie donated books to help the library after she visited Coconut Grove and attended a Pine Needles Club meeting. In 1897, the library occupied a storeroom called the Exchange Library. In the 1900s, Ralph Munroe, the commodore of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, donated land for the construction of a new library, with the condition that the grave of his wife Mrs. Eva Amelia Hewitt Munroe, who died in 1882 would be maintained on the site in perpetuity. The library structure was donated by writer and conservationist Kirk Munroe.
On October 26, 1900, the Coconut Grove Library Association was incorporated. By March 6, 1901 Miami-Dade County's first library building had been built in Coconut Grove and was occupied. It remained in service until 1957, when it became part of the Miami Public Library.
On November 16, 1963, a two-story library designed by local architect T. Triplett Russell opened and is a designated Florida Heritage Site.
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Miami-Dade Public Library System
The Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) is a system of libraries in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
The Miami-Dade Public Library System is a county department within Miami-Dade county government. The Board of County Commissioners is the governing body over the library system.
The Library Advisory Board serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of County Commissioners on public library issues, providing reports, recommendations, and guidance to the government of Miami-Dade County.
The service area of the Miami-Dade Public Library System is defined by the Miami-Dade Library Taxing District. The district includes the majority of the geographical boundaries of Miami-Dade County, including most of its 35 municipalities and all of unincorporated Miami-Dade County. The Miami-Dade Public Library System includes 50 libraries, two bookmobiles and one technobus. Along with its own branches, the Miami-Dade Public Library System also allows patrons of public libraries in the cities of Hialeah, Homestead, North Miami, and North Miami Beach to use MDPLS services.
The Miami-Dade Public Library System can trace its roots to April 7, 1894 with the opening of a reading room in Lemon City. One library was opened in the Lemon City public school, while in 1902, the Lemon City Library opened at 412 NE 61st Street. The Lemon City Library Association was established on February 4. 1902. The occasion took place at the house of Mrs. Cornelia Keys and was attended by the Village Improvement Association, which was founded in 1896 by the city’s leading ladies, who were instrumental in the development of the Lemon City Library Association. The Lemon City Library, like its counterpart in Coconut Grove, also operated as a circulation or subscription library.
On June 15, 1895, the Pine Needles Club opened the Coconut Grove Library. Louise Whitfield Carnegie donated books to help the library after she visited Coconut Grove and attended a Pine Needles Club meeting. In 1897, the library occupied a storeroom called the Exchange Library. In the 1900s, Ralph Munroe, the commodore of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, donated land for the construction of a new library, with the condition that the grave of his wife Mrs. Eva Amelia Hewitt Munroe, who died in 1882 would be maintained on the site in perpetuity. The library structure was donated by writer and conservationist Kirk Munroe.
On October 26, 1900, the Coconut Grove Library Association was incorporated. By March 6, 1901 Miami-Dade County's first library building had been built in Coconut Grove and was occupied. It remained in service until 1957, when it became part of the Miami Public Library.
On November 16, 1963, a two-story library designed by local architect T. Triplett Russell opened and is a designated Florida Heritage Site.
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