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The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including ...
The history of Kosovo dates back to pre-historic times when the Starčevo culture, Vinča culture, Bubanj-Hum culture, and Baden culture were active in the region. Since then, many archaeological sites have been discovered due to the abundance of natural resources which gave way to the development of life. In antiquity the area was part of the ...
The National Library of Kosovo ( Albanian: Biblioteka Kombëtare e Kosovës; Serbian: Народна библиотека Косова, romanized :Narodna biblioteka Kosova) is the highest library institution in Kosovo established by the Assembly and is located in Pristina . The mission of the library is to collect, preserve, promote and make ...
This is a timeline containing events regarding the history of Kosovo. Prehistory, Roman era – 13th century AD [ edit ] 5500–4500 BC: The Neolithic archaeological culture of Vinča occupied a large area of Central Balkans .
The Public Library of Kentucky was opened to the public on April 27, 1872, inside the Central Market building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The library consisted of thousands of volumes of books, an art gallery and a museum. It was the dream of its founders to build a museum inside the library that would rival the British ...
The onset of the 20th century. At the turn of the century, Kosovo lay entirely within the Ottoman Empire. Its status was as a vilayet and it occupied a territory significantly larger than today's entity and with Üsküp (now Skopje) as provincial capital. Its own borders were internally expanded following a local administrations reorganisation ...
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives is a collection of library and information resources. KDLA's mission is to serve " Kentucky 's need to know" through its services "assuring equitable access" to information and services. Many of the materials available from KDLA are public domain . KDLA's fair use statement: "Fair use" includes ...
The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke. The Discovery, Settlement and present State of Kentucke and an Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country is a 1784 book by John Filson. It describes the discovery, purchase and settlement of Kentucky. Inaccuracies in the text have influenced public ...