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In 1905, the Hagerstown (Md.) Public Library, now part of the Washington County Free Library began he first public library service on wheels as a horse-drawn book wagon designed by Mary Lemist Titcomb, head of the library.
- Drive-Through Service Windows
In 1950, the first drive-through windows are established for book returns at Cincinnati's Public Library.
- Presidential Library
The first presidential library, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Library, opens in Fremont, Ohio, in 1916.
- Public Library
There are three generally accepted answers for this question:
1. The Library Company of Philadelphia, which was founded in November 1731 by Benjamin Franklin. The Library Company began as a subscription library, supported by members.
2. A library in Peterborough, New Hampshire, opened in 1833, is considered to be the first modern public library. According to the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, it was the first institution founded by a municipality with the explicit purpose of establishing a free library open to all classes of the community and supported by public funds.
3. The Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large free municipal library in the United States, founded in 1848, by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts.
- Record Collection
1914 - First record collection in St. Paul, Minnesota, but the first report of a circulating collection is 1923 in the Springfield (Mass.) Public Library. The reference for both is American Library and Book Trade Annual, 1960. p. 179.
- Woman President of ALA
1911 - Theresa West Elmendorf