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Rock Island Public Library
The Rock Island Public Library is located in downtown Rock Island, Illinois. The Rock Island Public Library traces its beginnings to 1872, making it one of the oldest public libraries in Illinois. However, fee-based public libraries started in 1855 in Rock Island and have contributed to the history of Illinois' original library system.
==Association Library 1855-1857==
On June 23, 1855 Joseph B. Danforth, the editor of the ''Rock Island Republican'' printed an editorial explaining four reasons why Rock Island needed to start a public library.〔Diane Oestreich, "Rock Island Public Library 19th Street and 4th Avenue," Rock Island Argus Newspaper, December 30, 2001, C1.〕 The following week, on June 27, 1855, an anonymous letter was published in the ''Rock Island Argus'', formerly the ''Republican'', offering to give $100 to build a book collection if nine other men would promise to give $100 and if the city promised to give the ten men lifelong membership and a building to store the books.〔Roland Tweet, Miss Gale's Books: The Beginnings of the Rock Island Public Library, (Rock Island, IL: Rock Island Public Library, 1997), 5.〕 Because nine other men did not step forward to provide the funds needed to reach the $1,000 required to build a collection, Rock Island's citizens decided to have a meeting on September 15, 1855, to decide how a library could be created in Rock Island. The meeting created the Rock Island Library and Reading Room Association, a board of officers and a committee to draft a constitution.〔Roland Tweet, 4.〕 Since Illinois law did not include a provision that allowed the city to tax the residents to fund a library, the board of officers decided the library would be open to the "public" as long the man was a Rock Island resident and could pay the yearly membership fee. By the end of the September 15 meeting, the men had raised $500 from their own personal funds, set up another committee designed to raise money for the library and a fee schedule. The library fees ranged from $3.00 for a yearly membership to $100 for a family lifetime membership as long as the children were under 21 years old.〔Roland Tweet, 5.〕 For unexplained reasons, the Association Library closed by the end of 1857, forcing library members to store the books in their own homes for safekeeping until another library would open in 1865.〔Diane Oestreich, C1.〕
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