by Carla Urban
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The Great River Regional Library (GRRL) was one of the participants in the recently completed MDL/DPLA Public Library Partnerships Project. GRRL is a consoli
The Great River Regional Library (GRRL) was one of the participants in the recently completed MDL/DPLA Public Library Partnerships Project. GRRL is a consolidated library system of 32 branches serving six counties in central Minnesota.
We were looking for content on the history of libraries in Minnesota and GRRL came through with a project that included exterior and interior images of the St. Cloud Public Library's original Carnegie building, built in 1902 and torn down in 1981. It was great to preserve these pictures of a "Lost Minnesota" structure. GRRL also contributed images of St. Cloud’s second library building, in use from 1979 to 2009, the Great River Regional Library Bookmobile, the Little Falls Public Library, and the Royalton Community Library.
Two of their images were used in the DPLA’s online exhibition, “A History of US Public Libraries,” in the section on Carnegie libraries.
Many thanks to GRRL's Christopher Getz for coordinating his library's participation in the PLPP.
