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- Carnegie libraries are libraries which were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. More than 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including some belonging to public and university library systems. Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of Libraries. Of the 2,509 such libraries funded between 1883 and 1929, 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in Britain and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia, New Zealand, Serbia, the Caribbean, and Fiji. Very few towns that requested a grant and agreed to his terms were refused. When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie. Beginning in the late 19th century, women's clubs organized in the United States, and were critical in identifying the need for libraries, as well as organizing for their construction and long-term financial support through fundraising and lobbying government bodies. Women's clubs were instrumental in the founding of 75-80 percent of the libraries in the United States. Carnegie's grants were catalysts for library construction based on organizing by women's clubs. In the early 20th century, a Carnegie library was often the most imposing structure in hundreds of small American communities from Maine to California. Most of the library buildings were unique, displaying a number of architectural styles, including Beaux-Arts, Italian Renaissance, Baroque, Classical Revival, and Spanish Colonial. Scottish Baronial was one of the styles used in Carnegie's native Scotland. Each style was chosen by the community, although as the years went by James Bertram, Carnegie's secretary, became less tolerant of designs which were not to his taste. The architecture was typically simple and formal, welcoming patrons to enter through a prominent doorway, nearly always accessed via a staircase. The entry staircase symbolized a person's elevation by learning. Similarly, outside virtually every library was a lamppost or lantern to symbolize enlightenment. The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1883. As well as Carnegie's name, the building displays a motto - "Let there be light" - and a carving of the sun over the entrance. His first library in the United States was built in 1889 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, home to one of the Carnegie Steel Company's mills. Initially, Carnegie limited his support to a small number of towns in which he had an interest. From the 1890s on, his foundation funded a dramatic increase in number of libraries.
- Carnegie libraries - sieć ponad 2500 publicznych bibliotek ufundowanych przez szkockiego biznesmena Andrew Carnegie'a Pierwsza biblioteka została wybudowana w mieście Dunfermline w Szkocji, w 1883r. Podobnie jak w pozostałych obiektach nad wejściem znajduje się motto "Niech stanie się światłość".
- 卡內基圖書館是美國人安德魯·卡內基創立的一系列圖書館。 卡內基於1835年誕生於蘇格蘭，1846年舉家遷至美國賓州匹茲堡附近的小鎮，幼時貧困，年長後建立了舉世無匹的鋼鐵王國。 卡內基在事業有成之後，仍記得當年在匹茲堡工作時，每週六下午熱切等待利用圖書館的心情，以及圖書館藏書帶給他的快樂與滿足。因此，於1881年他捐贈了第一座圖書館予他的家鄉，此後他本人先後捐款56,160,000美元，建造了2,509所圖書館館舍於歐美各國，其中1,679所分布於美國各社區中。 位於匹茲堡的第一座卡內基圖書館幾乎成為日後贊助其他地方的典範，該館於1895年正式開放啟用，館舍面積4英畝半，除圖書館外，倘有可容納2,000人座位的音樂廳、畫廊、自然史博物館。在卡內基的不斷支持下，該館發展迅速，在1898年至1900年內已擴建了5座分館，館藏量已逾300,000冊。 該館從成立至今，曾編輯過不少出版品，較著名者如：《分類目錄》(1895-1916)(Classified Catalogue)、《科技圖書書評索引》(1917-1928)(Technical Book Review Index)以及從1919年出版至今的《鋼鐵文獻評論》(Review of Iron and Steel Literature)。 1919年卡內基逝世後，他的圖書館慈善事業仍透過卡內基基金會(Carnegie Corporation)，繼續嘉惠圖書館。至1968年底，位於匹茲堡的卡內基圖書館，館藏量已逾2,130,000冊圖書，每年圖書館使用人數達4,381,625人次，工作人員共計610名。此時已有15個分館，1部市區圖書巡迴車，以及3部郊區圖書巡迴車，以擴大服務該市邊區民眾。 在20世紀早期，卡內基圖書館的建築可以說就是美國各城鎮的代表。大多數的圖書館建築都是獨具風格的，包括義大利文藝復興時期、巴洛克風、新古典復興主義以及西班牙殖民時期。每種建築風格簡單而正式都是由當地社區居民自己決定的，總是經由一個樓梯歡迎每一位到館使用的讀者。而這個樓梯的意義就在於每一位進館的讀者都是受到同樣尊重的。同樣地，每棟建築外的街燈或者燈柱都象徵了圖書館啟迪民眾知識的意義。 卡內基對圖書館慈善事業之贊助多少也受到他經商背景的影響，他認為捐贈金錢予地方建造館舍，而該地方必須相對的提供土地，並承諾永遠維持該圖書館的營運，從商業觀點而言，地方的長期投資將比他本人的捐贈金額大得多。每個地方獲取卡內基贊助營建圖書館館舍的條件為： （一）任何社區如申請一卡內基圖書館館舍，必須由其市長或地方議會通過提供土地。 （二）該地方保證每年利用地方稅收，作為圖書館維持費用，該費用必須至少是卡內基所捐贈款項的1/10。 由於卡內基的捐贈，加速了美國公共圖書館發展的速度，他終其一生熱心於慈善事業，並貢獻個人財富90%（約333,000,000美元），給各類慈善事業，因此有「捐助圖書館的聖人」(Patron Saint of Libraries)之美譽。
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