I have my videos of the re-opening of the main branch of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne uploaded at http://krumbar.neptune.com (Click on ACPL). You need to have a high-speed connection and, unfortunately for some of you, Neptune is an Internet Explorer only site. If you use some other browser, you won't be able to see the video.
Let me also say that the libray is right where it was before the building project began, despite its new address. 900 Library Plaza is 900 Webster Street, but Webster Street has been cut in two and a large patio area with picnic tables has taken its place.
I've divided the files so that you can see only what you wish to see. My walk through the genealogy department is a bit lengthy, perhaps, but wait until you see the new Microtext room and the rows and rows of microfilm cabinets! And all those books you used to have to ask for are now on open stacks. I also show using the system to find a book I know is there -- mine. Then I take a walk to the Brickhouse Cafe on the ground floor. I'm glad to see it's actually outside the circulating library area, but does include Twice Sold Tales, the used book store, which until now was off-site. So you can sip your coffee, eat a sandwich or lovely pastry and read a second-hand book you've just bought. For pure entertainment, give a listen to our Memorial Park Middle School Jazz Band. Memorial Park is a magnet fine arts school. Those kids can really scat! Give City Councilman Tom Didier a listen in Post the Colors, as he sings our National Anthem. He also opens all Komets Hockey games at Memorial Coliseum. Enjoy!
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The Allen County Public Library contains the largest publicly owned genealogical collection in the United States -- some say in the world. Its contributions to research have a world-wide impact. I'm sorry if you were offended Reinhard, but many people on this list live in the U.S., and many travel to Fort Wayne, Indiana for research in documents that indeed come from Lower Saxony. The availability of their materials has been somewhat abbreviated over the last four years while the library was rebuilt, and it is all now open again.
Understandable some might wonder the what and why of such a post, especially from the German side. But as Loretta noted, the ACPL [Allen County Public Library |aka| Fort Wayne City Library] is indeed a monster of a genealogical library, rivaled in the U.S. only by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The ACPL even surpasses the genealogy division of the Newberry Library in Chicago, and those of the New York and Los Angeles public libraries. It also boasts the largest collection of English-language family and local history periodicals in the world - more than 5100 current subscriptions and nearly 10,000 total titles. It subscribes to countless foreign periodicals, many emanating from Germany.
Like the FHL in SLC, you could get lost in it for days and never stop discovering things, both American and European based. The restructuring took a number of years to complete, and any American involved in family history pursuits for a reasonable amount of time has been aware of this development.
The ACPL was actually cited a few months back on H-L, with the death of genealogist Ryan Taylor.
Thanks, J.B. I couldn't have said it any better (and didn't). I was thinking of Ryan a lot Saturday. What a shame he died before this all came to fruition!