Bill Allen

Library Fundraising Ideas: Boosting Support for Your Community LibraryDid you know the first completely free, open to the public library was the Boston Public Library founded in 1848? Yes, Ben Franklin had the Benjamin Franklin's Library Company of Philadelphia that was established in 1731 as a lender library, and still is the foundation of the free libraries we often take for granted today, but this library only lent books to its members and was actually a private membership-based library.It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that public libraries really started popping up all over America. And one of the most important people at this time was Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie donated millions of dollars to build public libraries across the U.S. His belief was that libraries could help individuals lift themselves out of poverty through education. By the time of his death in 1919, Carnegie had funded the construction of over 1,600 libraries in the U.S. alone.But it wasn’t until 1956

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