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There may be no greater repository of analog information than the library, a glorious assembly of printed pages that can take us on adventures, educate us, and fill our days and nights with details of worlds beyond our own all free of charge. Today, there are roughly 116,867 public and academic libraries dotting the country. To celebrate National Library Week, we ve rounded up 25 fascinating facts about these irreplaceable institutions.
1. Benjamin Franklin started up a lending library in 1731.
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One of the oldest public libraries in the country opened in 1790 in Franklin, Massachusetts, where residents circulated books donated by Benjamin Franklin. The Founding Father once started his own lending library in 1731 in Philadelphia called the Library Company, but it required a subscription fee of 40 shillings.
TO MARK today s International Women s Day, we are asking you to pay tribute to inspirational women in Herefordshire. We have started with a few women making a real difference in our county, but would you add to our list? You can add your pictures and tributes to inspirational women by clicking on the link. Kiko Matthews rowed her way into the record books after completing an amazing feat to cross the Atlantic single-handed. The 36-year-old reached Barbados in March 2018 having steered herself to victory on board Rannoch Adventure’s world-class carbon fibre boat. The former Hereford Cathedral School pupil clipped 11 days off the previous record to cross the ocean in 44 days, surviving 40ft waves, sleep deprivation, muscle pains, blisters, sea-sickness and loneliness in a bid to raise money for Kings College Hospital, where she was treated for a pituitary tumour.