This is a list of Carnegie libraries in Oceania. Although most of Carnegie's philanthropic efforts were aimed at North America and Europe, a handful of libraries are scattered in other English-speaking areas of the world. New Zealand, with 18 Carnegie libraries, received the fourth-most libraries of any country.
Australia
Carnegie financed four libraries in Australia.[1]
| City or locality |
State | Image | Date granted[2][3] |
Grant amount[2][4] |
Inflation adjusted amount | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobart | Tasmania | 6 Oct 1902 | $36,505 | $1,234,711 | |||
| 2 | Midland Junction | Western Australia | 2 Dec 1909 | $7,300 | $237,764 | |||
| 3 | Mildura | Victoria | 23 Jun 1906 | $9,825 | $320,004 | |||
| 4 | Northcote | Victoria | 13 Mar 1909 | $14,610 | $475,853 | |||
| Total | — | — | — | — | $68,240 | $2,222,602 | — | — |
Fiji
There is a Carnegie library in Suva, Fiji's capital, funded by the philanthropist with a $7,300 grant ($229,272 today) on 13 December 1907.[2]
Malaysia
There was a Carnegie library in Kota Bharu.[5] The library is now called Kelantan Public Library Corporation.
Mauritius
There is a Carnegie library in Curepipe.[5]
New Zealand
The money for Carnegie libraries in the Dominions (the contemporary term used for former colonies such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa within the British Empire) was administered from New York. Twenty-five towns and boroughs applied for funding and eighteen libraries were provided in New Zealand. The country had the fourth-highest number of Carnegie libraries, behind the USA, the UK and Canada:[1]
| Town | Region | Image | Date granted[2][3] |
Grant amount[2][4] |
Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandra | Otago | 2 Dec 1909 | $3,880 | Demolished in 1978[6] | ||
| 2 | Balclutha | Otago | 2 Apr 1913 | $4,870 | |||
| 3 | Cambridge | Waikato | 
|
14 Dec 1908 | $4,870 | ||
| 4 | Dannevirke | Manawatū-Whanganui | 
|
10 Apr 1906 | $9,690 | Threatened by demolition as of August 2020[7] | |
| 5 | Dunedin | Otago | 
|
19 Sep 1902 | $48,700 | Moray Place | Dunedin Public Library moved to a new building in 1981. |
| 6 | Fairlie | Canterbury | 
|
31 Jan 1913 | $4,875 | ||
| 7 | Gore | Southland | 
|
10 Jul 1907 | $9,750 | 14 Hokonui Drive | Eastern Southland Gallery |
| 8 | Greymouth | West Coast | 
|
5 Oct 1904 | $10,967 | Destroyed by arson in 1947[6] | |
| 9 | Hamilton | Waikato | 
|
23 Apr 1906 | $9,720 | 354 Victoria Street | Opened 27 February 1908; demolished in 1960[6] |
| 10 | Hastings | Hawke's Bay | 29 May 1905 | $12,175 | Opened in 1907; demolished in 1931[6] | ||
| 11 | Hokitika | West Coast | 
|
20 Jun 1905 | $12,175 | Hokitika Museum | |
| 12 | Levin | Manawatū-Whanganui | 
|
28 Sep 1909 | $7,290 | Demolished in 1965[6] | |
| 13 | Marton | Manawatū-Whanganui | 23 Jul 1914 | $6,075 | |||
| 14 | New Plymouth | Taranaki | 13 Feb 1906 | $12,150 | Demolished in 1957[6] | ||
| 15 | Onehunga | Auckland | 15 Jul 1909 | $9,720 | |||
| 16 | Thames | Waikato | 
|
7 Jan 1904 | $9,760 | In 2014 the library was restored and extended to provide archive and genealogy facilities for the Thames Coromandel area[8] | |
| 17 | Timaru | Canterbury | 
|
14 Jun 1906 | $21,010 | ||
| 18 | Westport | West Coast | 
|
10 Sep 1903 | $9,720 | Lyndhurst Street | The library moved to a new building in 2003[9] |
| Total | — | — | — | — | $207,397 | — | — |
Notes
- ^ a b Rodgers, Kerry. "Carnegie libraries". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Anderson, pp. 94–98.
- ^ a b Miller, pp. 21–40.
- ^ a b The amounts listed here were mostly granted in British pounds. In general the conversion rate used by the Carnegie Corporation was £1 = $5.
- ^ a b Wee, S.C. (18 March 1982). "Rare Carnegie Library in Malaysia to be demolished". UPI.
- ^ a b c d e f "Carnegie libraries slideshow". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ "Former Carnegie Library's future bleak". Heritage New Zealand. August 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ "The Treasury Research Centre & Archive". Architectus New Zealand. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ jshaffner (11 March 2013). "Winning Westport". The Librarian is IN. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
References
- Anderson, Florence (1963). Carnegie Corporation Library Program, 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 525904.
- Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611.
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