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313: 332:(and its surrounding environs). After some debate and discussion which was also widely reported in the local newspapers, the mayor and council accepted the gift and the terms of its conditions later that year, which were subsequently approved by the citizens in a referendum held during an election that October, 1882. Pratt’s donation consisted of $ 250,000 for land and building for the central library; $ 50,000 for land and building for four branch libraries; and $ 833,333 in cash for an endowment whose estimated annual return of $ 50,000, he anticipated, would finance expenses for management of the library system. Construction of the Central Library began 1882; it opened on January 5, 1886 .  The first four branches also opened in 1886. Subsequently, Pratt gave funds for the construction of two more branches; one opened 1888 and the other in 1896. In 1899, 450: 1202: 106: 1626: 1726: 2432: 479: 29: 1719: 2445: 124: 493: 234:. His intention was to establish a public circulating library that (as he described it) "shall be for all, rich and poor without distinction of race or color, who, when properly accredited, can take out the books if they will handle them carefully and return them." The grant was soon accepted by the municipal government and approved by the voters on October 25, 1882. 406:
historic Central Library. The building remained open to the public. February 11–19, the Central Library closed to the public to relocate departments to the newly renovated upper floors, and to begin renovation of the lower levels. The restoration was completed in Fall of 2019. A Grand Reopening block party drew a crowd of 9,000 people.
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By the late 1920s, Old Central could no longer hold the library's continually expanding collection, even though an annex had been added at the rear. Baltimore City voters approved a loan for $ 3 million by an almost 3-to-1 margin on May 3, 1927. The Central Pratt Library's staff, services and 400,000
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Pratt's branches serve the unique needs of customers in their neighborhoods. There are 21 branches across the city of Baltimore, as well as three mobile units. In 2018, the Pratt expanded service hours by more than 30 percent across the system. Branches include Brooklyn Canton, Clifton, Edmondson
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from New York. The building was completed in January 1933, and opened to the public on February 3, with a record of not one day of suspended service since the original beginnings of "Enoch Pratt's Folly" on January 5, 1886. In Spring of 2016, ground was broken on a $ 115 million restoration of the
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for a two-year stay during 1931–1933. At this temporary location, the Central Pratt was able to reorganize and plan for its future arrangements of departments and try out its soon-to-be famous "department store windows" displays It was razed in 1931, along with several townhouses facing Cathedral
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In June 2022, workers across the Pratt Library system voted to form a union named Pratt Workers United with AFSCME Council 67, representing over 300 workers across the system, calling for improved wages, benefits, career advancement, and increased staff input on their work environment. The council
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In 2023, The Pratt Library hit a 12-year high for circulation. That year also saw the highest number of new library cardholders in 7 years, as well as a surge in active cardholders. Summer reading program, Summer Break Baltimore also hit a record high with more than 21,000 participants across the
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In July 2017, Heidi Daniel was named the new president and CEO of the public library system. Under Daniel's leadership, the Pratt became one of the first fine-free public library system's on the East Coast. In 2017, the Enoch Pratt Free Library was named one of Reader's Digest and
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The Maryland Department, located on the second floor of the 2004 Annex, contains many of the library's prized collections. These include 275,000 mounted documents (mostly newspaper articles), 2100 maps, 6000 pieces of ephemera, and 24,000 photographs, all relevant to
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s Nicest Places in America. Daniel also helped expand the library's social impact programs, including Social Worker in the Library, Healthcare in the Library, Peer Navigators, and Housing Navigators. Daniel sits on the Board of the Urban Libraries Council.
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Avenue, Forest Park, Govans, Hamilton, Hampden, Herring Run, Light Street, Northwood, Orleans Street, Patterson Park, Pennsylvania Avenue, Reisterstown Road, Roland Park, Southeast Anchor, Walbrook, Washington Village, and Waverly.
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The Cathedral Street Main Library is the flagship of the entire Enoch Pratt Free Library system, which includes twenty-one neighborhood branches, it was designated the "Maryland State Library Resource Center" by the
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Following Hayden's departure and promotion on August 11, 2016, the acting director of the library has been Gordon Krabbe, who served as the library's chief operating officer since 1989.
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The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore city: Letters and documents relating to its foundation and organization, with the dedicatory addresses and exercises January 4, 1886
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community, found itself at the center of the protests drawing nationwide and international attention, giving community members a safe place during the troubled times.
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and the new Federal Courthouse/Post Office, offered an important source of desperately needed employment to the hundreds of out-of-work citizens of the city.
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on January 21, 1882, offered to donate and construct a free public library with several neighborhood branches open to all the citizens of the City of
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This does not include institutions in Baltimore County, only Baltimore City. For colleges/universities elsewhere in the metropolitan area, see
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volumes were relocated to temporary quarters at the old Rouse-Hempstone Building at West Redwood Street and Hopkins Place (now the site of the
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if union campaigns at those institutions are successful. Workers within the library system have been organizing for a union since May 2021.
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Square at North Calvert and East Lexington-Fayette Streets, and the new Municipal Office Building on Holliday Street, across from the old
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and along with other major construction projects occurring at that time with the building of a new U.S. Courthouse and Post Office at
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Its establishment began on January 21, 1882, when the longtime local hardware merchant, banking, and steamship company executive and
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Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library building (second structure - built 1931-1933), Cathedral Street main entrance.
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Most materials in the Maryland Department are non-circulating but available for patrons to examine.
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seminarian in America (who later dropped out due to the prevailing racist attitudes of the day).
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Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City: Central Building
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became a target of criticism from journalists during final years of existence:
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However, later architectural historians come to a greater appreciation of the
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Explore Baltimore Heritage - Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Library
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in 1971. Central Library operates as the state library for Maryland.
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Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library, part 3
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The replacement structure occupies the entire block facing the Old
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400 Cathedral Street, (between West Franklin and Mulberry Streets)
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The architects were C. and N. Friz, with consulting architects
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Street, including a significant one formerly owned by
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