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Airdrie Public Library is a public library in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The library has been housed in a number of buildings since its founding. ==History of the two Carnegie library buildings and the observatory== The history of the library dates back to the 1850s when the town adopted the Public Libraries Act. Its first home was a room in the town hall, or Town House as it was called. From 1860 it moved a number of times until the opening of its current home in 1925. There have been two buildings purpose built for the library. The first was opened in 1894 by a public subscription of more than £1000 and a £1000 donation from Andrew Carnegie (the Scottish-American philanthropist) on Anderson Street, today’s (Airdrie Arts Centre ). MP Sir John Wilson gave a further £1000 to write off accompanying debt. Unusually, the library has shared a common history with an observatory. Airdrie Public Observatory was founded in this building in 1896. The 1894 building proved too small. The second purpose-built, and current, building was opened on September 25, 1925 funded by Airdrie Savings Bank and a second Carnegie grant.〔By this time Carnegie had died but his philanthropic work was continued by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust.〕 The local newspaper, the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser had this to say the next day; "''Although not quite finished the new Library building in Wellwynde Street was sufficiently far advanced towards completion to allow the opening ceremony to take place yesterday afternoon''". The observatory moved along with the library, a purpose-built observatory being built on the library roof and a brass refracting telescope was obtained by the observatory curator Ex-Baillie James Lewis for the sum of £500. The original Dr Reid telescope was also brought from the old observatory. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airdrie Public Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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