There are many things I really like about my job. As librarians, we spend a great deal of our time helping and teaching people. At times this can be a challenging career, but almost always an incredibly rewarding one. One major way we serve our community is through the materials we purchase for our collection. Read More

Written by Michael DiVittorio Editor’s note: Neighbor Spotlight is a monthly feature that aims to let our readers learn more about the people in their communities who are working to make them a better place, who have interesting stories to tell or who the community feels deserve “15 minutes of fame.” If you would like Read More

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.” — Abraham Lincoln I thought this quote from Abraham Read More

Written by Tribune-Review Diane Klinefelter is retiring from her position as Espy Post Curator and Social Historian at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. Local archivist and historian Jon-Erik Gilot is poised to take her place. Klinefelter, a passionate student of history and a professional genealogist, has served as curator since 2006 when Read More

Written by Tribune-Review For Union Civil War veterans, April 1865 started a time of healing and renewal. We often forget that there were no social safety nets for these men who so nobly served the call to arms to defend the Union. Not until 1930 was there a Veterans Administration as we know it today. Read More

Written by Maggie Forbes Thank you to all who attended our talk by bestselling author of Carnegie’s Maid, Marie Benedict! It was a lovely evening celebrating Andrew Carnegie’s 134th birthday in Carnegie Hall of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. Benedict shared interesting stories and tidbits from the life of Andrew Carnegie, but Read More

Written by Stephanie Hacke For Rachel Moore, The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is everything she imagines a library to be. And she’s ready and poised to help it grow into an even bigger community hub that connects people throughout Carnegie and beyond. “What an exciting, wonderful space that this community has been Read More

Written by Stephanie Hacke Connecting the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, located at the top of a steep hillside, to Carnegie’s business district below has long been a dream for many. The Library Park project includes the addition of a serpentine walkway, new trees and shrubs and 117-feet of mosaic benches. “You will Read More

Written by Matthew Guerry The opening of Library Park at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall is being pushed back so that a “potentially hazardous” outcrop of rock on the library’s hillside might be removed. Library Executive Director Maggie Forbes said the removal and accompanying landscaping will add $167,000 to the cost of Read More

Written by Matthew Guerry Mosaics assembled by members of the community for the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall’s planned Library Park project are nearly complete. The library’s series of workshops drew over 300 participants. Depicting scenes and people from local history, the mosaics will form a 117-foot mural that will be set in Read More