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Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library
The Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library, named after local philanthropists Mark and Emily Turner, is a public library in the City of Presque Isle, Maine, USA. The library provides resources to the city's residents including periodicals, books, audio books, computers with internet access, and wireless internet throughout the library. The library also provides passport services, maintains a library in second life, genealogical research, and provides reference services to the United States and the international community.
== History ==
In the late 19th century, "a group of citizens from Presque Isle who called themselves the Half & Half Club, created and supported their own library collection that was kept at local businesses due to the city not having a library building; with each store owner being named the local librarian". However, in the early 1900s, as the city's population began to increase, there was a demand for a permanent library structure. The town of Presque Isle applied for a gift/donation from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation; otherwise known as the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The request was granted giving the city $10,000 for the purchase of land and construction. After the initial land purchase of "$1,000 from Dudley Heirs, local citizens raised around $950 for the purchase of a smaller, adjoining plot of land".〔 The library was opened in May 1908 under the name: Presque Isle Free Library.
By the 1960s, overcrowding in the library had become such a problem that it was acknowledged by patrons and officials of Presque Isle that the library needed to be expanded. The initial funds given to the library for its expansion was from the government "under Title III Legislation in the amount of $60,000".〔Graves, Richard A. III.(2007). ''Forgotten Times: A Walk Through History''. Presque Isle: Signature Book Printing.〕 A generous local philanthropist and his wife, Mark and Emily Turner, then matched the government funds donating $60,000 towards the expansion of the library. By April 1967 the library was renamed the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library in honor of the couple that helped finance the construction. As a token of appreciation, Mark Turner received library card number 001, the first library card given by the new library. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held and attended by Mark Turner, "Burt Tompkins, chairmen of the city council, and Bill Flora, chairman of the library board, and state governor Ken Curtis, was given a tour of the new facility".〔
The library now has a collection of over 60,000 materials including books, periodicals, databases, microfilm, and other resources.
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