{"id":16751,"date":"2023-04-24T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=16751"},"modified":"2023-04-24T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T19:01:14","slug":"happy-national-library-week-theres-more-to-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2023\/04\/24\/happy-national-library-week-theres-more-to-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Library Week: There’s More to the Story!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Join us in celebrating National Library Week from April 23-29. This year’s theme is “There’s More to the Story.” The story of libraries in Davenport, Iowa began in 1839 with a library in the LeClaire Hotel. In the following decades, the community saw the building and dedication of the Clarissa Cook Memorial Library in the 1870s as well as one of its prominent citizens, Alice French, advocating for the building of a free public library with financial assistance from philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davenport’s Carnegie Library was dedicated on May 11, 1904, after the library levy was passed in 1900 to support library services. Each historical moment in our past shares more of our story. To read more about the Davenport Public Library’s history, check out the following blogs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n