Carnegie Library
Carnegie Library, a public library built with funds supplied by Andrew Carnegie. A community that received such a grant supplied the site and agreed to support the library from tax funds. The grants not only paid for the buildings, but also helped buy the initial stock of books. From 1881, when he set up the fund, until 1911, Carnegie provided $43,000,000 for libraries. Between 1911 and 1917, the Carnegie Corporation distributed another $13,000,000. In all, 2,509 libraries were built, most of them in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Grants were discontinued in 1917.