She not only shares this message from Andrew Carnegie, Bakker works to bring his passion for libraries to as many Nashvillians as possible through the Nashville Public Library Foundation.

After years of planning and millions in renovations, the meticulously restored, revived and repurposed former Carnegie ...

Editor’s note: In her just released book, “A New Era of Philanthropy,” Dimple Abichandani, a philanthropy leader and adviser, imagines herself as a podcast host interviewing Andrew Carnegie, often ...

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Many people are familiar with the name "Carnegie." There's Carnegie Hall in New York City and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, both named after one of the world's wealthiest men during ...

It has always seemed like nothing short of a miracle to me that public libraries exist at all. Now, more than a century after Andrew Carnegie helped ignite the popularity of the local library in ...

The building was the 1,000th library funded by Andrew Carnegie, a businessman and philanthropist from Pittsburgh. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some ...

"Free for All: The Public Library," a new documentary airing on PBS' "Independent Lens" April 29, charts the path of the ...

In 1833, the first completely tax-supported library opened in New Hampshire. Between 1886 and 1919, industrialist Andrew Carnegie put up money to open more than 1,600 public libraries, then nearly ...