| 词条 | Calgary Public Library |
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| library_name = Calgary Public Library | library_logo = | image = File:Calgary_Central_Library_Render.jpg | caption = Downtown library | country = Canada | type = | established = {{Start date|1912}} | ref_legal_mandate = | location = Calgary, Alberta | coordinates = {{coord|51.046534|-114.057773|display=inline,title}} | num_branches = 21 | collection_size = 2,332,581 (2012) | annual_circulation = 17,121,718 | budget = | director = Bill Ptacek | num_employees = | website = {{URL|http://calgarylibrary.ca/}} }} The Calgary Public Library (CPL) is a distributed library system featuring 21 branch locations including the Central Library.[1] It is the second most used system in Canada (after the Toronto Public Library)[2] and the sixth most used library system in North America.[3]{{Dead link|date=January 2019}} This is despite the fact that the Calgary Public Library has one of the lowest per capita funding in the country, receiving as little as half the money of other Canadian public libraries. [4][5][6]HistoryThe Calgary Public Library Board of Trustees was established on May 18, 1908. R. B. Bennett, who would later serve as Prime Minister of Canada, was among the five people appointed to the board.[7] The first public library opened on January 2, 1912, thanks in part to the generosity of Scottish / American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.[8][9] Carnegie funded $80,000 of the $100,000 cost of Calgary's Central Library, (now renamed the Memorial Park Branch), pressuring City Hall to fund the rest.[10] The building was the first purpose-built public library in Alberta. It was designed by Boston architects McLean & Wright, and built out of local Paskapoo Sandstone (a soft stone that today presents a substantial preservation challenge). This library branch is a copy of a library in Attleboro, Massachusetts. In 1929 the formal Victorian-style park surrounding the Central Library was dedicated to the honour of those who had died in the Great War. During construction of the original building, the Calgary Library Board sought out a librarian to oversee the opening of its new library. In January 1911, Alexander Calhoun, a thirty-one-year-old graduate of Queen's University, was appointed Calgary's Librarian. Calhoun served as the head of the Calgary Public Library until his retirement in 1945.[11][12] When a new downtown central library was constructed in the early 1960s, the original branch was renamed the Memorial Park branch, and still operates today. An addition to the 1960s Central Library was built in 1974, doubling the size of the building.[13] 21st centuryIn 2013, CNOOC subsidiary Nexen donated 1.5M dollars to the Calgary Public Library. The company has secured the naming rights for high tech learning commons in the new Calgary Central Library. CNOOC CEO Li Fanrong reiterated the gesture was motivated by the company's corporate responsibilities to Calgary.[14] There have been concerns of censorship as CNOOC is a Chinese state run company, however McIntyre Royston library foundation head assures that the library's collection won't be censored. The location of the new library is in the Downtown East Village (just across 3rd St. S.E. from the new City Hall).[15] On February 25, 2013, City Hall was approved the master plan to have the new library be built at the fore-mentioned location at Downtown East Village with the overall cost of C$245 million. The 286,000-square foot complex was completed on November 1st, 2018.[16][17][18] Services
StatisticsCalgary Public Library Facts (2012):[2]
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References1. ^{{cite news| url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Calgary+library+system+defies+Alberta+trend+slowing/6873727/story.html| title=Calgary library system defies Alberta trend of slowing patronage| work=Calgary Herald| first=Sherri| last=Zickefoose| date=July 2, 2012| accessdate=2012-09-01}} 2. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/Media/Marketing/Report-to-the-Community-2012.pdf | title=Calgary Public Library Report to the Community 2012 (page 33) | accessdate=2013-11-02 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104031134/http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/Media/Marketing/Report-to-the-Community-2012.pdf | archivedate=2013-11-04 | df= }} 3. ^{{cite news| url=https://calgaryherald.com/business/energy-resources/Calgary+Public+Library+sets+borrowing+record/6057782/story.html| title=Calgary Public Library sets new borrowing record (Becomes sixth busiest library system in North America)| work=Calgary Herald| first=Meghan| last=Potkins| date=January 27, 2012| accessdate=2012-01-28}} 4. ^{{cite web| url=http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/Media/Marketing/Calgary-Public-Library-Board---2012-Audit-(Client).pdf |title=2012 Calgary Public Library Audited Financial Statements |accessdate=2013-11-02}} 5. ^{{cite web | url=http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/cpl100/invest-in-the-next-100 | title=Invest in the Next 100 | accessdate=2013-11-02 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104025708/http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/cpl100/invest-in-the-next-100 | archivedate=2013-11-04 | df= }} 6. ^{{cite web| url=https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/281/362 |title=Cash Cow: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries |accessdate=2013-11-02}} 7. ^Gorosh,E. Calgary's "Temple of Knowledge": A History of the Public Library. 1975 Century Calgary Publications. p.5. 8. ^{{cite web| url = http://cdm280501.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p280501coll15&CISOPTR=1733&CISOBOX=1&REC=1| title = Carnegie Library, Calgary, Alberta.| date = 2002-06-04| work = Community Heritage and Family History Digital Library| publisher = Calgary Public Library| location = Calgary| accessdate = 2010-07-12}} 9. ^{{cite news| url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/great+city+acquired+great+library/6712709/story.html| title=How a great city acquired a great library (Unlikely champions were ardent supporters of free books)| work=Calgary Herald| first=Sherri| last=Zickefoose| date=June 1, 2012| accessdate=2012-06-05}} 10. ^Gorosh, E. Calgary's 'Temple of Knowledge'. Calgary, Alberta: Century Calgary Publications, 1975. p. 6 http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=498191 11. ^Nicholson, Barbara and Donna Lohnes: Alexander Calhoun: The Cornerstone of Calgary's "Temple of Knowledge" Citymakers: Calgarians after the Frontier. Max Foran, Shellagh Jameson (ed.). The Historical Society of Alberta, Chinook Country Chapter, 1987. p.152-153 12. ^{{cite news|last1=Ward|first1=Rachel|title=How Calgary's 'revolutionary' first librarian shaped the city|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-first-librarian-alexander-calhoun-1.4594903|accessdate=30 March 2018|work=CBC|date=30 March 2018}} 13. ^Gorosh, E. Calgary's 'Temple of Knowledge'. Calgary, Alberta: Century Calgary Publications, 1975. p.106 http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=498191 14. ^Markusoff, Jason.'Chinese state-owned CNOOC makes largest-ever donation to Calgary Public Library'.September 13, 2014, Calgary Herald. https://calgaryherald.com/news/Chinese+state+owned+CNOOC+makes+largest+ever+donation+Calgary+Public+Library/8909832/story.html. retrieved October 30, 2014. 15. ^{{cite web| url=http://calgarynewcentrallibrary.ca/get-the-story/faq/| title=New central library - FAQ | accessdate=2013-11-02}} 16. ^{{cite news| url=http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2013/02/15/new-central-library-plan-takes-shape-the-master-plan/| title=New Central Library Plan Takes Shape: The Master Plan| work=Calgary Herald| date=February 15, 2013| accessdate=2013-02-26}} 17. ^{{cite news| url=https://calgaryherald.com/Council+approves+plans+central+library/8014288/story.html| title=Council Approves Plans For New Central Library| work=Calgary Herald| date=February 25, 2013| accessdate=2013-02-26}} 18. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/02/26/calgary-new-library-approved.html| title=New central library plan approved by council ($245-million project to be built in East Village next to city hall by 2018)| work=CBRT-DT (CBC News Calgary)| date=February 26, 2013| accessdate=2013-02-26}} 19. ^https://calgary.bibliocms.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/2013-Report-to-the-Community.pdf External links{{Commons}}
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