The Maryland State Library Agency is the official state library agency of Maryland located in
Baltimore
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,
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
.
It is governed by the twelve-member Maryland State Library Board.
They administer state and federal funds supporting Maryland's twenty-four public library systems.
The organization oversees the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, the state's public libraries, the State Library Network (including the
Maryland State Library Resource Center
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland. Its Central Library and office headquarters are located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupy the northeastern three quarters of a city block bound ...
), the Library Capital Grants Programs, and the Deaf Culture Digital Library.
History
The State Library originally existed as the Office of Public Libraries under the State Board of Education starting in 1935, though the State Library Commission which oversaw public libraries was established in Maryland by statute in 1902.
MSL became an independent agency within the State of Maryland, merging the Department of Education's Division of Library Development & Services, with their Public Libraries & State Networking Branch in 2017.
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State libraries of the United States
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