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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The Brown County Library is receiving $10,000 from a foundation established by Andrew Carnegie.
The donation from the Carnegie Corporation of New York is part of Carnegie Libraries 250, an initiative celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
“Opportunities for success and prosperity expand when people have access to information and ideas. Andrew Carnegie knew this because of experiences in his own life. He funded libraries to give others what he had received himself — access to ideas and information,” Brown County Library executive director Sarah Sugden said in a news release.
“Our founder, Andrew Carnegie, who championed the free public library movement of the late 19th century, described libraries as ‘cradles of democracy’ that ‘strengthen the democratic idea, the equality of the citizen, and the royalty of man,'” Carnegie Corporation president Dame Louise Richardson said in a news release. “We still believe this and are delighted to celebrate our connection to the libraries he founded.”
The donation has no restrictions on its use. It is expected to be delivered in January.
It’s not the first Green Bay donation connected to Carnegie, the steel magnate who immigrated to the U.S. from Scotland. One of the 1,681 free public library buildings Carnegie funded between 1886 and 1917 was in Green Bay. The Kellogg Public Library opened in 1903 and stood until 1973. It was replaced by the Brown County Central Library the next year.
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