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Sumner Library is a neighborhood library located in the Near-north neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Originally part of the Minneapolis Public Library, it became part of the merged Hennepin County Library in 2008. The Carnegie Library was a haven for Jewish immigrants to the city in the early 20th century. The Minneapolis Public Library moved its entire collection of Yiddish and Hebrew works to the branch library in response to a survey showing that 95% of the patrons were Jewish immigrants, some of whom learned English there and participated in social clubs in the building. The Tudor Revival building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Minneapolis )〕 Sumner and the 14 other libraries of Minneapolis Public Library were merged into the combined urban/suburban Hennepin County Library in 2008. The library will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Oct. 10, 2015.〔Hennepin County Library News, Sept. 21 http://www.hclib.org/about/news/2015/September/sumner-100〕 ==Establishment and Carnegie Grant== Sumner Library opened on June 5th, 1912 in a rented store room at 901 6th Ave. N in Minneapolis.〔Minneapolis Public Library Annual Report, 1912, p. 42.〕 Young people flocked to the library for reading materials, and many adults used the library’s collection of juvenile materials to learn English.〔Minneapolis Public Library Annual Report, 1913, p. 38.〕 Approximately 90% of the library’s patrons were Jewish immigrants.〔Minneapolis Public Library Annual Report, 1912, p. 42.〕 From the outset, reading materials in Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew were in high demand, and the foreign language collection was entirely “read out” by 1913.〔Minneapolis Public Library Annual Report, 1913, p. 38.〕 Just a few months prior to the library’s opening in rented quarters, the Minneapolis Public Library received notice that the Carnegie Corporation was offering them $125,000 to erect four branch libraries.〔Minneapolis Public Library Board Meeting Minutes, April 16, 1912.〕 Gratia Countryman, Head Librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library, had worked tirelessly to secure the grant.〔National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, April 28, 2000, section 8, p. 13, http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/nomination/00000539.pdf〕 Countryman believed that extension services would enable the library to reach as many people as possible, and the branch libraries were a key component of extension work in the Minneapolis Public Library system.〔Brown, Curt, “Minnesota history: For Gratia Countryman, an early librarian, praise is long overdue,” Star Tribune, April 29, 2015, http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-history-for-gratia-countryman-an-early-librarian-praise-is-long-overdue/301320371/〕 Sumner Library was the third of four branch libraries in Minneapolis to be constructed with funds from Carnegie.〔National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, April 28, 2000, section 8, p. 17, http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/nomination/00000539.pdf〕 Minneapolis architect Cecil Bayless Chapman designed the library in the Tudor Revival style. The brick L-shaped library featured arched ceilings and a central tower where the main entrance and librarian’s office were. Sumner Library’s new building officially opened on December 16, 1915 at 6th Ave. N and Emerson. After being open just one month, the new building was already too small. Staff reported that one-third of the children who came to the library could not find a place to sit, and adults were crowded out of the library altogether.〔Minneapolis Public Library Annual Report, 1915, p. 18.〕 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「Sumner Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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