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Tennessee Statehood Day is June 1. Citizens will celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Volunteer State's birth and its addition as the 16th state to enter the U.S.A. What's new is that the Tennessee State Library and Archives is now built and open as of April and it will feature prominently in the celebration. It sits at John Lewis Way and Jefferson Street, just north of the Capitol building in downtown Nashville. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and State Librarian and Archivist Chuck Sherrill spoke about the new building and Statehood Day on this episode of the Tennessee Voices...

People in the reading room can browse the state collection of books and files on a computer, request the items be retrieved, and have them available within 10 minutes. The robotic system itself can track down the items within 90 seconds. The books are then sent down a small elevator to the librarian desk in the reading room, where a person can then retrieve it. "Often we have people who come for a week and come everyday to pursue a research topic," Sherill said, explaining visitors have traveled to the state library from other countries and spent months in Nashville using the resources for re...

Attention, lovers of history and books: The new state Library & Archives building is open Natalie Allison, Nashville Tennessean For 15 years — a period spanning three governors and two secretaries of state — Tennessee has had plans to add to Bicentennial Mall, a state park in Nashville in the shadow of the Capitol. The plan was to build in one corner of the park a new Library and Archives facility, a place to keep the hundreds of thousands of books, historical documents, legislative records and other materials. As plans lagged, across the mall — through the carillon cir...