Thursday, August 9 – Union County
at 4:30 p.m. —
Author and Monmouth University librarian Eleonora Dubicki will be the featured speaker sharing research for her article “Carnegie Libraries in New Jersey: 1900-1923.” Ms. Dubicki has published two books and more than a dozen articles on topics in the field of library and information science.
Andrew Carnegie was a hard-driving industrialist of the 19th century who became a leading civic philanthropist in the early 20th century. A major part of his legacy was the endowment of 1,688 public libraries throughout the country, including six in Union County: Westfield, Plainfield, Cranford, Summit, and Elizabeth, which had two.
The Main Library in Elizabeth was constructed in 1912 and is the only one of those six to continue functioning as a library.
The Carnegie Library series is a partnership with the Union County of Board of Chosen Freeholders through the Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, the Elizabeth Public Library and the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance.
This program is funded in part by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State.
