The first subscription library in Arkansas was founded by the Ladies’ Library Association in Little Rock in 1847. Its purpose was to provide a lending library for its members and promote literary culture in the community.
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The Arkansas Post (1686) or the Poste aux Arkansas as it was called by the Canadians was the first town to be founded in the state of Arkansas. It having been founded well more than bigger towns such as St. Louis or New Orleans.
The Library Company is America's first successful lending library and oldest cultural institution. It was founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin as a subscription library supported by its shareholders, as it is to this day. See: http://www.librarycompany.org/about/index.htm -- Libarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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The First Arkansas Bank and Trust was founded in the year 1949. The bank was founded by Kenneth Pat Wilson who served as board chairman with his sons in important positions.
Benjamin Franklin founded the first subscription library in America.
Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Before that in 1701, the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel began collecting books in England to establish church libraries in American Episcopalian Churches. Many churches, which existed before the days of good public libraries, still have church libraries.
It is impossible to know who founded the first library. However, we do know that Ptolemy I founded a massive library at Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century BCE. Benjamin Franklin started the first American free lending library at Philadelphia, PA.
Q.1 What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971?
The first 'lending' public library was in England, it is located in the London Guildhall and it was built in 1425. The first library in Europe was a private one, founded in France by King Charles V in 1368.
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