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2007
November 28
Jennifer
Crosby, Library Director
Electronic
Mail: < jenni.crosby@gmail.com
>
Dear
Ms. Crosby:
As
author of the History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries Internet web
site
< http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc >,
I
am delighted to be able to congratulate the Staff, Management, and Board of
Trustees of the Granby Public Library, as well as the Town Government
and
the Citizens of Granby, Massachusetts, on the very impressive milestone of 90
years of public service of the Granby Public Library!
Although
the History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries web site does not have a
comprehensive list of Carnegie Libraries at this time,
it
does have links to several other web sites with comprehensive regional and
state lists of Carnegie Libraries, including the web site,
New
England Carnegies < http://www.necarnegies.com
>, which includes a page on the Granby Carnegie Library. In honor of the
90th
anniversary of the Granby Public Library, I have now also included an entry on
your library in the History of Andrew Carnegie and
Carnegie
Libraries web site at the link:
<
https://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/cfl.html#granby
>.
Andrew
Carnegie strongly believed that public libraries belonged in the neighborhoods
and small towns of
in
the big cities. For this would be the best way to get books in the hands of the
common man.
The
Granby Public Library is certainly one of the smallest of the Carnegie
Libraries, having been constructed for the grand sum of $5,000 in 1917.
However,
while many larger Carnegie Libraries have disappeared for various reasons, your
Carnegie Library has stood the test of time as one of the
pinnacles of your community.
And, as you look ahead to an enhanced library
structure sometime in the future, I urge you to keep the best of your historic
facility, while adding on to
improve service to the community. The inclusion, in
any new structure, of the historic front façade, unique sections of the interior,
and the historic furnishings
would go a long way to connect the past with the
future of library service in your community.
Again, congratulations on 90 years of library
service to the public, in your historic Carnegie Library, and best wishes for
the future!
Sincerely yours,
Glenn A. Walsh
gaw
Copy: Janice McArdle, Youth Service Librarian,
Granby Public Library < tjmcardle@comcast.net
>
Corinne H. Smith, Webmaster, New
England Carnegies Web Site < chsmith@berkshire.net >
Al Kamper, retired District
Services Coordinator, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh