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Building and Collection Enhancements

Since its inception in 1997, the Foundation has raised more than $17 million that has provided for:

  • Gov. Phil Bredesen and Andrea Conte unrestricted endowment
  • Bridgestone/Firestone Conference Center
  • Caroline's Collection
  • Civil Rights Room and Collection bestowed by Robin and Bill King
  • The Mike Curb Children's Theater
  • Anita and Bill Cochran Popular Materials Collection
  • Rascoe Bond Davis Nashville Room
  • Ingram Hall
  • Junior League of Nashville Childrens Services
  • Civil Rights Room bestowed by Robin and Bill King
  • La Storia della Terra (Tower of Books) bestowed by the Liff Family Foundation
  • Martin~Turner Oral History and Special Collections Center
  • Memorial Foundation Grand Reading Room
  • Memorial Foundation Gallatin Road Corridor Young Adult Project
  • Special Collection Digitization Project
  • StoryCorps National StoryBooth Project
  • Wilson Limited Editions Room

     Stair Bannister, Main Library

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

-Germaine Greer

photo by Barbara Sammons
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