state library

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The state library was awarded $15.7 million for the year, and was still owed about 21% of that.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025

Nunnally said state officials haven’t determined how books would be moved to the state library or what they would do with them in the event the Dayton library ceases to exist.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Last month, a copy of “The Bounty Trilogy” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, published in 1932, was returned to a Washington state library 81 years after it was checked out, CNN reported.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2023

For one assignment, after a few days’ digging at the state library, Anne brought home a list: the names of the human beings one of our not-so-distant ancestors had owned.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

The documentaries were ordered from the state library and usually selected by Ahmed Kathrada, who was our section’s librarian.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela