[Michlib-l] [Everyone] Your Help Needed: What Is The Oldest Public Library in Michigan?

[Deborah Larsen]

Not claiming to be the oldest in Michigan, mind you, but Mount Clemens 
Public Library was established in 1865 and like DPL, is also celebrating 
our 150th anniversary during 2015.

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Deborah Larsen
Assistant Director
Mount Clemens Public Library
150 Cass Ave. | Mount Clemens MI 48043
586-469-6200 | www.mtclib.org
www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467100120/Legendary-Locals-of-Mount-Clemens

On 04.24.2015 1:01 PM, Kathie Brown wrote:
> According to
> https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/lm_2009_DataDigest_325316_7.pdf
> 
> 
> Michigan’s largest library, Detroit Public Library, is also the
> state’s oldest established free public library. Detroit Public Library
> was established 32 years before the first Library of Congress, and is
> only
> 17 years younger than the United States’ oldest public library, Boston
> Public Library.
> 
> Kathie Brown
> Coordinator of Automation Services
> Farmington Community Library
> Farmington Branch / Farmington Hills Main
> 248.848.4316
> 248.553.3228 Fax
> kathie.brown at farmlib.org
> 
> “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
> ** Marcus Tullius Cicero **
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: everyone-request at lists.tln.lib.mi.us
> [mailto:everyone-request at lists.tln.lib.mi.us] On Behalf Of Jim Flury
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 12:54 PM
> To: michlib-l; everyone
> Subject: [Everyone] Your Help Needed: What Is The Oldest Public
> Library in Michigan?
> 
> All,
> 
> Earlier today I was contacted by Chris Hall at the Detroit Free Press.
> You will recall that Chris has always been very interested in as well
> as supportive of, the Michigan Activity Pass program. To that end,
> here is the link to an article she wrote about the program that
> appeared in the March 1, 2015 issue of the Detroit Free Press:
> http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/02/28/michigan-activity-pass-program-expands-state-parks-program-free-admission-special-discount/24191905/
> 
> Anyway, with the ongoing celebration of the 150th birthday of Detroit
> Public Library, Chris asked me if I knew what was the oldest public
> library in the state of Michigan. By that she didn't mean oldest
> building but rather, earliest establishment of a public library. She
> wondered if it might be DPL. I said I didn't know, but that if I had
> to guess it would be either Sault Ste. Marie or Monroe (previously
> Frenchtown), based on the fact that those two places were settled so
> early. I also told Chris that there were people out there in library
> land who are a lot smarter than I am, who would know the answer to her
> question:
> 
> What is the oldest public library in Michigan?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jim
> 
> Jim Flury
> Technical Services Manager
> The Library Network
> 41365 Vincenti Court
> Novi, MI 48375
> 248-536-3100 x133
> Fax 248-536-3098
> jflury at tln.lib.mi.us
> 
> 
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