PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi03652::A Guide to the Records related to the Carroll County Public Library, 1911-1987)//EN" "vi03652.xml" A Guide to the Records related to the Carroll County Public Library, 1911-1987 50249 Jennifer Rogers Library of Virginia © 2012 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from derived from MARC record by Jennifer Rogers, 24 July 2012 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Records related to the Carroll County Public Library, 1911-1987 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 50249 Jennifer Rogers

Library of Virginia 2012 Jennifer Rogers Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Records related to the Carroll County Public Library, 1911-1987 50249 .2 cu. ft. (1 box) English Library of Virginia Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Records related to the Carroll County Public Library, of the Library of Virginia, 1911-1987. Accession 50249, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Transferred by the Library Development and Networking division of the Library of Virginia, 1 December 2011.

Biographical Information

Carroll County relied on a book mobile run by its public school system for decades until it funded and built its own public library, completed in the fall of 1982. The Town of Galax administered a mini-library within one of its city offices, until it funded and built a larger, separate facility in the 1970's.

Scope and Content

Records related to the Carroll County Public Library, 1911-1987, includes historical and biographical information, photographs, and journals. These records were collected by Alice Lee Cox. Collection includes unofficial histories of the Carroll County Public Library and the Town of Galax Public Library, clippings related to both libraries, and the former's book mobile. Photographs include the book mobile, military hospitals and libraries, and the Carroll County libraries. The journals included are Library Journal, 7 Stories High, Virginia Journal of Education and Wilson Library Bulletin, and miscellaneous leaflets.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically by format

 Contents List Records related to the Carroll County public library, 1911-1987. Biographical/historical records, 1937-1987. 1 1 Journals/leaflets, 1911-1959. 1 2 Photographs, 1939-1942. 1 3