It helped establish religious pluralism.
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Benjamin Franklin started the first library in Philadelphia
He first started by getting a writ of habeus corpus from the Queen, then had severed his ties to the crown. He then got some building materials and instinctively began building a town, which later led to other towns being built.
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The first subscription library in Arkansas was founded by the Ladiesโ 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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In 1971 he became the first president to establish his library on a college campus.
Benjamin Franklin is commonly credited with starting the first lending library in the United States in 1731 in Philadelphia. Franklin and a group of friends created the Library Company of Philadelphia as a subscription library where members paid to borrow books.
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 helped establish religious pluralism.
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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
It helped establish religious pluralism.
It helped establish religious pluralism.