Library

1638 - Harvard University Library
1693 - William and Mary University
1701 - Yale University Library
1731 - The first three public library in the U.S. are The first is the Library Company of Philadelphia
1732 - Benjamin Franklin - Almanac
1746 - Princeton University Library
1749 - University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library
1761 - Columbia University Libraries
1766 - Rutgers, The State of New Jersey University Library
1795 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Walter Royal Davis Library
1800 - The Library of Congress
1800 - University of Georgia Libraries
1801 - University of South Carolina Thomas Cooper Library
1802 - West Point - United States Military Academy Library
1812 - Thomas Jefferson- Library of Congress - 2,000 volume
1817 - University of Michigan Libraries
1818 - St Louis University Libraries
1818 - New York State Library
1819 - University of Virginia Alderman Library
1824 - Indiana University at Bloomington
1831 - New York University - Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
1836 - Library of the Office of the Surgeon General (Surgeon General of the Army)
1838 - Duke University Library (William Perkins)
1839 - University of Missouri - Columbia Elmer Ellis Library
1850 - University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library
1850 - University of Wisconsin Madison General Library System and Memorial Library
1850 - University of Utah Marriott Library
1851 - University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities
1852 - Hawaii State Library System
1852 - Boston Public Library
1853 - Washington University Libraries
1853 - Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
1855 - Michigan State University
1855 - University of Iowa Libraries
1855 – The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1856 - Northwestern University Library
1857 - Pennsylvania State University Fred Lewis Pattee Library
1862 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries
1865 - University of Massachusetts at Amherst Library
1865 - Detroit Public Library
1866 - University of Kansas Librarians
1867 - President Andrew Johnson signed legislation creating the first Department of Education
1868 - World Almanac
1868 - University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
1869 - Cleveland Public Library
1869 - University of Washington Libraries
1871 - University of California, Berkeley
1871 - Syracuse University Library (E.S Bird)
1872 - Chicago Public Library
1872 - Los Angeles Public Library System
1873 - University of Pittsburgh University Libraries
1873 - Kansas City Public Library
1873 - Ohio State University Libraries William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
1876 - Centennial (100 years)
1876 - University of Colorado, Boulder
1876 - John Hopkins Library Milton Eisenhower Library
1876 - Library: Dewey Decimal
1878 - Milwaukee Public Library
1880 - University of Southern California Edward Doheny Memorial Library
1883 - University of Texas Libraries
1886 - Enoch Pratt Free Library
1888 - National Geographic - 130 years
1891 - University of Arizona Library
1891 - University of Chicago Libraries
1891 - Free Library of Philadelphia
1892 - Stanford University Libraries
1895 - New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox, Tilden Foundation)
1895 - University of Oklahoma University Libraries
1895 - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
1896 - Brooklyn Public Library System
1901 - Dallas Public Library
1901 - Houston Public Library
1905 - University of Florida Libraries
1912 - South State Cooperative Library System
1917 - World Book Encyclopedia
1919 - University of California Los Angeles Library
1922 - State University of New York at Buffalo University Libraries
1922 - Reader’s Digest
1926 - SAT
1934 - National Archives
1939 - Presidential Library History. The Presidential Library system formally began in 1939, when President Franklin Roosevelt donated his personal and Presidential papers to the Federal Government.
1958 - University of Maryland - University Libraries - McKeldin Library - Theodore McKeldin
1965 - University of Maryland - University Libraries - The school of library and information sciences, now College of Information Sciences founded
1970 - University of Maryland - University Libraries - 1 million books
1976 - Bicentennial (200 years)
1980 - University of Maryland - University Libraries - Hornbake Library - R. Lee Hornbake
1990 - University of Maryland - University Libraries - 2 million books
1995 - Internet Public Library
1999 - National Library of Medicine
2001 - Wikipedia - wikipedia.org - 5 million articles
2002: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2002 - Microsoft Works - Digital
2005 - University of Maryland - University Libraries - 3 million books
2005: World Book Encyclopedia (Apple), Apple Works - Digital - Apple Computer 2005 until
2016 - LinkedIn - Linda (Librarian CBT) - Computer Based Training
2019 - Open Syllabus - Open Syllabus Explorer
2020 - world book encyclopedia (1 book J/K) - purchased