Chattanooga Public Library

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The Chattanooga Public Library
Chattanooga Public Library
Location Chattanooga, Tennessee
Established1905
Branches5
Access and use
Population served184,086
Other information
DirectorWill O’Hearn
Website https://www.chattlibrary.org/
The Old Library Building, the library's former location OldLibraryChattanooga.jpg
The Old Library Building, the library's former location

The Chattanooga Public Library (est. 1905) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a municipal public library overseen by the city government. [1] [2] As of 1928 it ran the Hamilton County public library. [3] In 2013 it opened a makerspace. [4] The current building on Broad Street used to show signage as the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, having opened in 1976.

Contents

A former building of the library system was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Old Library Building. It was a Carnegie library built in 1904. That building was superseded by one on the corner of McCallie Avenue and Douglas Street, in use until 1976, now Fletcher Hall, housing the Gary W. Rollins College of Business, a part of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

List of databases

As of 2014 the library arranges for its patrons access to digital content from several providers:

TitleProducer
3M Cloud Library [5] 3M
Academic Onefile [6] Cengage
Ancestry Library Edition [7] Ancestry.com
Archives Unbound [7] Cengage
Axis 360 [5] Baker & Taylor
Books & Authors [8] Cengage
Brainfuse [9] Brainfuse
Business Gateway [9] Cengage
Career Transitions [9] Cengage
Chattanooga Obituaries [7] Chattanooga Public Library
Commercial Appeal Newspaper [10] Cengage
Core Concepts [6] Rosen Publishing
Culinary Arts Collection [9] Cengage
DemographicsNow [6] Cengage
Digital Literacy [9] Rosen Publishing
Financial Literacy [6] Rosen Publishing
Fold3 (no longer provided online from this library) [7] EBSCO Industries
Gale Virtual Reference Library [6] Cengage
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection [11] Cengage
Genealogy Connect [7] Cengage
General Business OneFile [9] Cengage
General OneFile [10] Cengage
General Reference Center Gold [10] Cengage
Health and Wellness Resource Center [6] Cengage
Heritage Quest [7] Cambridge Information Group
Home Improvement Collection [11] Cengage
Hoopla [5] Midwest Tape LLC
Jobs & Careers Gateway [9] Cengage
Kids' Gateway Tennessee State Library and Archives
Kids InfoBitsCengage
Knoxville News Sentinel Newspaper [10] Cengage
Learn 4 Life [9] Cengage
LearningExpress Library [9] LearningExpress, LLC
LegalForms [9] Cengage
Magazines from Zinio [10] Gilvest
Mitchell Car Repair [11] Snap-on
MyHeritage - World Vital Records [7] MyHeritage
National Geographic Kids [10] Cengage
National Geographic Virtual Library [10] Cengage
National Newspaper Index [10] Cengage
New England Ancestors Online [7] New England Historic Genealogical Society
One-Click Digital Audiobooks [5] Recorded Books [12]
OverDrive Media Download Library [5] OverDrive
Popular Magazines [10] Cengage
Power Knowledge [6] Rosen Publishing
PowerSearch [6] Cengage
PowerSpeak Languages [7] Cengage
Reference USA [6] CCMP Capital
Safari Books [6] O'Reilly Media
Small Business Collection [9] Cengage
Student Edition - K12Cengage
Student Edition InfoTracCengage
Teen Health and Wellness [6] Rosen Publishing
Tennessean Newspaper [10] Cambridge Information Group
Tennessee Death Records [7] Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tennessee Maps 1885-1955 [7] Cambridge Information Group
Tennessee Virtual Archive [7] Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tennessee's Landmark Documents [7] Tennessee State Library and Archives
Testing and Education Reference Center [9] Cengage
Travel eBooks [8] Cengage
Treehouse [11] Treehouse
TumbleBook Library [5] Tumbleweed Press
U.S. History Collection [6] Cengage
Volunteer Voices [7] Tennessee State Library and Archives
World Book Encyclopedia [13] World Book,
World History Collection [6] Cengage

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References

  1. ↑ City Council. "City Code: Libraries". City of Chattanooga. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
  3. ↑ "County Libraries", Rural Libraries, Farmers' Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1928
  4. ↑ "Why Your Library May Soon Have Laser Cutters and 3-D Printers", Wired , September 2, 2014
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Resources: Streaming and Downloads". Chattanooga Public Library. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Resources: Research". Chattanooga Public Library. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Resources: Genealogy". Chattanooga Public Library. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24.
  8. 1 2 "Resources: Lifestyle". Chattanooga Public Library. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Resources: Business and Career". Chattanooga Public Library. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Resources: News Stand". Chattanooga Public Library. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Resources: DIY". Chattanooga Public Library. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ "About Us". Pr Frederick, MD: Recorded Books. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Resources: Homework Help". Chattanooga Public Library. Retrieved October 9, 2014.

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