The Kern County Historical Society has partnered with the Kern County Library for a talk about the history of the library and ...
It’s hard to beat the setting of the historic Lakeport Carnegie Library in Lake County. The Park Street building is well over 100 years old and is set upon three acres in the heart of downtown near ...
On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...
The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...