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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
public library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants.
There are ...
overseen by the city
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
. As of 1928 it ran the
Hamilton County public library. In 2013 it opened a
makerspace
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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
National Register of Historic Places
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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 That building was superseded by one on the corner of McCallie Avenue and Douglas Street, in use until 1976, now Fletcher Hall, housing the Gary W. Rollins College of Business, a part of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.
List of databases
As of 2014 the library arranges for its patrons access to digital content from several providers:
References
Further reading
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External links
Official website* Flickr
Chattanooga Public Library photos
Public libraries in Tennessee
Organizations based in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1905 establishments in Tennessee
Hackerspaces
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