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Northeast Library is a public library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Hennepin County Library system. Since opening in 1973, Northeast Library at 2200 Central Avenue Northeast in Minneapolis serves a vibrant metropolitan community, Northeast, Minneapolis.〔Hennepin County Library, “Northeast Library,” http://www.hclib.org/about/locations/northeast〕 At 15,275 square feet, the space held about 30,000 books and featured a fireplace to welcome patrons in winter.〔Benidt, Bruce Weir, “The Library Book,” Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, 1984, p. 203.〕 The 1973 building was itself a replacement for a Carnegie library which was on the site from 1915 until 1972.〔Olson, Gail, “Plan for Library: Too Rushed?” The Northeaster, January 23, 2008, http://nenorthnews.com/CurrentNews.asp?view=906&paperID=1&month=〕 ==Previous Northeast Minneapolis libraries, 1892–1972== The first library service for the "New Boston" community in Northeast Minneapolis was a deposit station "H," located at Moody's Drug Store, 25th and Central in 1892. In the early 20th century, Gratia Countryman, Director of the Minneapolis Public Library, tracked patron metrics of branch libraries and determined that the New Boston Branch, which had opened in January 1907, was busy enough to warrant moving from a rented space at Central Ave. and 24th Ave. NE into a purpose-built library. The Central Avenue branch, the second of Andrew Carnegie’s four libraries in Minneapolis, opened on November 15, 1915 and quickly became one of the most active and important branches of the Minneapolis Public Library System.〔Benidt, Bruce Weir, “The Library Book,” Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, 1984, pp. 94, 99-100.〕 The Carnegie building served newly arrived immigrants of German, Polish, and Scandinavian descent,〔Sassaman, Judith, “The History and Development of the Carnegie Branch Library Buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul from Their Beginning to the Present,” 1979, p. 23.〕 hosted programming for adults, and collaborated with the neighborhood’s schools.〔Ehling, Matt, “The Hennepin County Library System – Connecting Past with Present,” MinnPost, 06/30/2011, https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2011/06/hennepin-county-library-system-%E2%80%93-connecting-past-present〕 The branch held weekly storytimes for children and Americanization classes.〔Sassaman, Judith, “The History and Development of the Carnegie Branch Library Buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul from Their Beginning to the Present,” 1979, p. 23.〕 Initially, all library services were held on the main floor of the library and the basement held a meeting room and an auditorium, but eventually the children’s room was moved to the basement.〔Sassaman, Judith, “The History and Development of the Carnegie Branch Library Buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul from Their Beginning to the Present,” 1979, p. 22.〕 Mirroring the Minneapolis Public Library’s other Carnegie branches, children constituted a significant portion of the library’s patronage, and many children who grew up in Northeast Minneapolis before the library was razed, remember the Central Avenue branch as their neighborhood library.〔Arnold, Caroline, “My First Library: Hennepin County Library Northeast,” September 30, 2015, http://carolinearnoldart.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-first-library-hennepin-county.html〕 The Central Avenue branch was the only Carnegie library in Minneapolis to be torn down. The building was in very poor condition at several points in its existence, and multiple renovations of the branch in 1936 and 1950 could not keep it from falling into disrepair again by the 1960s. In 1970, Minneapolis Public Library Director Ervin Gaines announced that the cost of renovating the Central Avenue branch was higher than the cost of a new building. The Central Avenue branch was razed in 1972, and in 1973 Northeast Library was dedicated on the same site.〔Sassaman, Judith, “The History and Development of the Carnegie Branch Library Buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul from Their Beginning to the Present,” 1979, p. 26.〕 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「Northeast Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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