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Regular Saturday hours resume September4 - 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The Library will be closed Monday, September 6 for Labor Day

Math 4 U Graduates!

The 2010 graduating class of the Comcast Foundation Math 4 U program designed to promote math readiness for children entering Kindergarten in the Fall. Congratulations to all students, parents, and volunteers. And a big "Thank You" to Comcast for making this possible. To register for our 2011 class or find out more information, please call Erin Tipping at 412-276-3456, x8.

Visit us at the Carnegie Arts & Heritage Festival

Main Street, Carnegie, PA

Thursday, September 9 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Friday, September 10, 4:00 PM to midnight

Saturday, September 11, noon to midnight

and the

Saturday, September 25

South Side's Riverfront Park

Sponsored by Sen. Wayne D. Fontana

Attendees have the chance to take a canoe ride on the Monongahela, learn more about their community organizations, hear music, participate in a story time, make a craft, have a burger or hot dog, win a door prize, and enjoy the camaraderie. Free.

 

Download Audio Books and Videos through the library's e-collection.

Take a guided tour to learn more here:

Browse the collection and download the software here:

 

To print from your personal laptop connected to the Library WiFi, Click Here.

 

Visit the painstakingly restored Capt. Thomas Espy Post No. 153

of the Grand Army of the Republic

Open Saturdays, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

National Treasure restored!

 

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is to inform, inspire and enrich its diverse communities through library and information services, performing arts and other cultural, educational and community activities.

 

The 1901 Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall (ACFL&MH) sits graciously on a hill above Carnegie’s Main Street. The facility houses a fine regional library, an acoustically excellent music hall, studios, a lovely reception hall, and—a true national treasure—its Civil War Room.   The Thomas Espy Post of the Grand Army of the Republic is one of the seven or eight most intact G.A.R. post in the country.

The historic landmark ACFL&MH is one of only four libraries in the United States endowed by famed industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie.  (Braddock, Homestead and Duquesne – the last, sadly demolished – where Carnegie had steel mills, are the others.)  In the early 1890s, the leaders of what were then Chartiers and Mansfield approached Mr. Carnegie and offered to merge into a new town in return for the philanthropist's building a library.  The borough of Carnegie incorporated in 1894. Ground was broken for the Library in 1899.  The ACFL&MH opened its doors in May 1901 and has been proudly serving its community ever since.