Wisconsin library history link of the day: Chippewa Falls Public Library

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Library History to 1969 | Chippewa Falls Public Library  
Key dates

• 1893. "Book social" given by the People's Literary Society (November)
• 1893.  City Council adopts resolution establishing a library (December )
• 1894.  Library opens in McBean Building (February)
• 1902.  Andrew Carnegie Foundation provides $20,000 for construction of new library building.
• 1903.  Carnegie library opens on December 3.
• 1914.  Library modernized with electric lighting.
• 1915.  Fire in library offices causes $3,000 in damage; most of earliest library records destroyed.
• 1947.  Death of Minnie Enger, who had worked at library for 30 years.
• 1949.  Children's room opened as a memorial to Enger.
• 1969.  New library opens to replace outmoded Carnegie building.

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Other library history posts:

Alma Public Library.  (1/15/2016)
Altoona Public Library.  (1/16/2016)
Appleton Public Library.  (1/17/2016)
Vaughn Public Library, Ashland.  (1/18/2016)
Baraboo Public Library.  (1/19/2016)
Boulder Junction Public Library.  (1/20/2016)
Brillion Public Library.  (1/22/2016)
Jane Morgan Memorial Library, Cambria.  (1/24/2016)

Listed by year of legal establishment:
1888.  Vaughn Public Library, Ashland
1891.  Wisconsin Library Association established.
1894.  Chippewa Falls Public Library.
1895.  Baraboo Public Library
1897.  Appleton Public Library
1917/1943(?).  Cambria library/Jane Morgan Memorial Library
1959.  Brillion Public Library
1960.  Altoona Public Library
1977.  Boulder Junction Community Library
1985.  Alma Public Library