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Accomplishments

Gifts to the Foundation have made possible:

  • Nearly $5 million in book and collection enhancements
  •  Arts @ Main
  • Bridgestone/Firestone Conference Center
  • Bringing Books to Life- preschool literacy program
  • Civil Rights Room bestowed by Robin and Bill King
  • Anita and Bill Cochran Popular Materials Collection
  • Mike Curb Children's Theater
  • Rascoe Bond Davis Nashville Room
  • Ingram Hall
  • Junior League of  Nashville Children's Services
  • La Storia della Terra
  • Martin~Turner Oral Historyand Special Collections Center
  • Memorial Foundation Grand Reading Room
  • The Puppet Truck
  • Margaret Ann and Walter Robinson Courtyard
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
  • Wilson Limited Editions Room
  • Youth Development Program, TOTAL, funded by Bank of America
 
    Martin~Turner Oral History and
       Special Collections Center, Main Library

I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.

-Jorge Luis Borges

photo by Barbara Sammons