The Chattanooga Public Library (est. 1905) of

Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, ...

, is a municipal

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overseen by the city

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. As of 1928 it ran the Hamilton County public library. In 2013 it opened a

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. The current building on Broad Street used to show signage as the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, having opened in 1976. A former building of the library system was listed on the

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as Old Library Building. It was a Carnegie library built in 1904. That building was superseded by one on the corner of McCallie Avenue and Douglas Street, in use until 1976, now Fletcher Hall, housing the Gary W. Rollins College of Business, a part of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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As of 2014 the library arranges for its patrons access to digital content from several providers:

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Official website
* Flickr
Chattanooga Public Library photos
Public libraries in Tennessee Organizations based in Chattanooga, Tennessee 1905 establishments in Tennessee Hackerspaces {{library-stub

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