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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Monthly Bulletin
Published monthly, except in August and September, by the Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh, Forbes Street and Bellefield Avenue, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. President,
S. H. Church, Carnegie Library, Forbes Street and Bellefield Avenue; Secretary,
J. D. Hailman; Treasurer, James H. Reed, 1027 Carnegie Building; Director, John H.
Leete, Carnegie Library, Forbes Street and Bellefield Avenue.
Subscription 50 cents a year.
Vol. 25 February 1920 No. 2
Lawrenceville Branch
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Lawrenceville Branch, which is the oldest of the
branches of the Library, is on Fisk Street between Butler Street
and Penn Avenue. When it was opened to the public on May
11, 1898, it was in the center of the old Lawrenceville residence
district, but conditions in that part of the city have changed so
radically that its position is no longer so fortunate for meeting
the needs of the section of the city which it serves. Altered
conditions have likewise affected the general character of the
demands made upon the Branch.
A few of the old time Irish and Scotch-Irish residents of
Lawrenceville remain, but there is now a large element of foreign
born people—German, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian,
Yiddish, Swedish, Slovakian—many of whom read English
with difficulty or not at all, so that books in these languages
and books of easy readings in English are now a considerable
part of the collection kept in this building.
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