James M. Duncan, Jr. Branch Library (Alexandria, Va.)

JAMES M. DUNCAN BRANCH LIBRARY
<p>Hours and Location
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<p>Mon, Oct 23 10:00AM to 8:00PM
<p>Tue, Oct 24 10:00AM to 8:00PM
<p>Wed, Oct 25 10:00AM to 8:00PM
<p>Thu, Oct 26 10:00AM to 8:00PM
<p>Fri, Oct 27 10:00AM to 5:00PM
<p>Sat, Oct 28 10:00AM to 5:00PM
<p>Sun, Oct 29 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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<p>Address
<p>2501 Commonwealth Avenue
<p>Alexandria
<p>Alexandria, VA 22301
<p>Tel: 703.746.1705
<p>Fax: 703.746.1785
<p>About The Branch
<p>Parking: There is a small lot with 9 spaces. On street parking is available.
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<p>Public Transit:
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<p>Metrorail: Yellow and Blue lines at Braddock Road (1.3 miles) and King Street Stations (1.5 miles)
<p>Metrobus: 10A, 10B
<p>DASH Bus: 33
<p>For reasonable disability accommodation, contact jgregorio@alexlibraryva.org or call 703.746.1701 or TTY 703.746.1790.

Friends of Duncan Library
<p>Supporting our library and our community
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<p>About Us
<p>Fall Book Sale Sept. 27-30, 2023
<p>Friends of Duncan Library Book Sale Oct. 2, 2021
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<p>Please join us for our Fall Book Sale at Duncan Library from Wednesday, Sept. 27-Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Friends of Duncan Library Members can take advantage of a special Members-Only Preview Sale and will receive discounts throughout the rest of the sale. Book sale hours:
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<p>Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, 5:00-8:00 p.m.: Members-Only Preview Sale
<p>Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.: General Public Sale
<p>Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: General Public Sale
<p>Saturday. Sept. 30, 2023, 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: General Public Sale
<p>Books will be priced at $3.00 for hardcover, $2.00 for paperback, unless otherwise marked. Book sale profits go directly back to Duncan Library to support the purchase of books, programming, materials, community events, equipment and more. We hope you will stop by to support Duncan Library!
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<p>Not sure if your Friends of Duncan Library Membership is up-to-date? We will email reminders as we get closer to the book sale dates. If you’re not a Friend and want to sign up, it’s easy to join online.
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<p>Follow Us
<p>We post the most up-to-date news and events on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and X (Twitter).
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<p>Volunteers Needed
<p>The Board of Directors of The Friends of Duncan Library is seeking a volunteer to serve as Co-chair of the Board’s Adult Programs Committee. Currently the chairperson is Walter Gross who is looking to step down some time in 2022 after an orderly transition period.
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<p>Walter has been hosting monthly discussions of feature films for the Duncan Cinema Club for more than a decade. With input from Club members, he selects the films, searches the internet for articles, reviews and essays to share with members, prepares notices about upcoming films, and hosts monthly discussions. Since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, the monthly discussions have been via Zoom, but with limitations eased, Walter is beginning to schedule occasional screenings at the library to supplement the ongoing Zoom program.
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<p>If you are a film buff and enjoy talking with others about the films you have seen; if you enjoy books, TV shows and articles about the making of movies; or if you have taken film appreciation courses either in school or online, you should contact Walter about joining him and serving the Duncan Library community by sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm.
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<p>Email him at wgross3@comcast.net
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<p>About Us
<p>The Friends of Duncan Library is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports the operations of the Duncan Branch Library, located in the heart of the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Va.
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<p>Membership donations and monies raised by the Friends are used to help fund activities and purchase materials not covered through the City budget. We always welcome new members. Please join online or pick up a membership form, available at Duncan, across from the circulation desk. Memberships and contributions are tax deductible and valid for one calendar year.
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<p>The Friends sponsors a variety of educational and enrichment programs that include children’s programming, enhancing the overall collection, a cinema club and and other programs for adults. Money raised by the Friends primarily supplements the Library’s materials and programming budgets. Examples on how funds are spent include:
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<p>Purchasing Zoom Webinar subscriptions so library events can be held virtually.
<p>Supporting the SummerQuest children’s programs
<p>Purchasing juvenile non-fiction materials
<p>Purchasing games for after school programs
<p>Sponsoring adult programs, including the Film Club
<p>Enhancing the audio book collection
<p>Growing the adult fiction collection
<p>Sponsoring community events hosted by Duncan Library
<p>Purchasing equipment and supplies for the library
<p>Contributing funds for library improvements/remodeling
<p>Beautifying and landscaping
<p>Our primary forms of fundraising are membership campaigns and book sales.
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<p>Friends of Duncan Film Club
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<p>The Friends of Duncan Library Film Club
<p>Each month, watch films from a schedule developed by the club’s chairman, and join in by Zoom at the end of the month for a group discussion with like-minded film buffs. Check out the updated 2022 selections and schedule for more details.
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<p>Walter Gross chairs the Adult Programs, and if you’re interested in becoming a member of the film club, email him at wgross3@comcast.net. Membership is free and members receive monthly notices about upcoming films and other movie news.
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<p>Friends of Duncan Library Board
<p>The Friends comprises a five person executive board, each member serving a two year term. Board duties and responsibilities include establishing and organizing priorities and activities; raising funds, allocating and expending them; and establishing and overseeing the responsibilities of the standing committees.
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<p>Current board members are:
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<p>President — Doug Wade
<p>Vice President/Communications — Patti Reilly
<p>Vice President/Membership — Libby Bawcombe
<p>Secretary — Emily Roberts
<p>Treasurer — Mary Ann Bier
<p>Current standing committee chairs are:
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<p>Adult Programs — Walter Gross
<p>Grounds — Susan Hepler
<p>Book Sales — Patti Reilly and Susan Hepler
<p>Fundraising — Dan Roth
<p>Volunteer Coordination — Ali Filipowicz
<p>Outreach and Communications — seeking a volunteer
<p>Want to get involved? Join us for a board meeting or volunteer.

Alexandria Library (Virginia)
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<p>Coordinates: 38°48′28″N 77°2′49″W
<p>Alexandria Library (Virginia) is located in AlexandriaCharles E. Beatley, Jr. Central LibraryCharles E. Beatley, Jr. Central LibraryKate Waller Barrett Branch LibraryKate Waller Barrett Branch LibraryEllen Coolidge Burke Branch LibraryEllen Coolidge Burke Branch LibraryJames M. Duncan Branch LibraryJames M. Duncan Branch Library
<p>MapWikimedia | © OpenStreetMap
<p>Location US
<p>Established 1794
<p>Branches 6
<p>Collection
<p>Size 503,191
<p>Other information
<p>Director Rose T. Dawson
<p>Website alexlibraryva.org
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<p>Beatley Central Library
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<p>Reference area in Beatley Central Library
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<p>Duncan Branch Library in 2019
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<p>Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library
<p>Alexandria Library is the public library in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States.[1]
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<p>History
<p>In 1794, Alexandria Library opened as a private lending library, calling itself the Alexandria Library Company.
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<p>In 1937, Dr. Robert South Barrett donated funds to build a public library in memory of his mother, physician Dr. Kate Waller Barrett (1857-1925). The Society of Friends granted a 99-year lease for use of its former Quaker Burial Ground (then used as a playground).[2] An informal agreement provided that the interments would not be disturbed, although the few gravestones were transferred to the Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse and a granite marker acknowledges the former use. Thus, the new library building was built without a basement, but rather on a concrete slab foundation (as were subsequent additions).[3] The Library Company cooperated in this effort, contracting with the Alexandria City Council to turn over its collections to City of Alexandria as the City agreed to include the public library's operating expenses in its budget.
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<p>Due to practices common in Virginia and other Southern states at the time, the public library originally only permitted white residents to use the facility. On August 21, 1939, several young African American men, in a strategy devised by attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker (who grew up about two blocks from the new library), staged a peaceable sit-in at the library to enable African Americans to use that public facility in the first known non-violent sit-in of the Civil rights movement in America.[4][5] Although they were arrested, charges were ultimately dropped by city attorney Armistead Boothe, and a branch library was built in 1940 for African Americans and named after Robert H. Robinson, which closed circa 1960 and now houses the Alexandria Black History Museum.[6][7]
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<p>Current operations
<p>Today the library consists of a new central building (built in 2000 and named for mayor Charles E. Beatley) and four branch libraries, and includes two special divisions: Local History /Special Collections (in what became the Kate Waller Barret Branch Library) and a Talking Books division for the blind and visually handicapped. The other library buildings are: the Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, the James M. Duncan Branch Library and the law library branch located in the historic Alexandria City Hall near the Barrett branch.[8]
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<p>Patrons check out more than 1.5 million titles annually, including books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, eAudioBooks, and other items. The system owned 503,191 items and had 700,921 library visitors (more than 1.3 million including its web site) in FY2017.[9] The library's current director is Rose T. Dawson. Among its more than 150 employees are more than 40 staff with master's degrees in library science.[8]
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<p>The library offers a wide variety of programs and services, both in the branches and via the Web site. Each branch has computers for access to the Internet, the catalog, downloadable material and databases. Library sponsored programs include: summer reading, One Book/One City, literary discussion groups, author book signings, children story times and other events for the city's diverse population. The Alexandria Library also started offering passport services[10] at the Barrett Branch[11] and Beatley Central Library in October 2016.
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<p>Non-resident privileges
<p>Non-Residents of the city who work, own property or attend school in the city may obtain a library card without charge. Non-Residents that live in an area that will offer reciprocal library card privileges to Alexandria residents may also obtain a free library card. Thus residents of the District of Columbia, the Maryland Counties of Montgomery, and Prince George's, the Virginia cities of Fairfax and Falls Church, and Virginia counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, and Prince William are all eligible.
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<p>Nearby public library systems
<p>Arlington Public Library
<p>Fairfax County Public Library
<p>District of Columbia Public Library
<p>Prince George's County Memorial Library System
<p>References
<p>"Alexandria Library". alexlibraryva.org. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
<p>Martha Claire Catlin, Historical Overview of the Woodlawn Quaker Meeting (October 2016), available at http://woodlawnfriends.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Historical-Overview-of-the-Woodlawn-Quaker-Meeting.pdf
<p>Francine M. Bromberg et al., "To Find Rest from All Trouble: The Archeology of the Quaker Burying Ground Alexandria Virginia" (Office of Historic Alexandria, 2000) pp. 90-91, 109-111, 180-182
<p>"1939 Library Sit-In". alexlibraryva.org. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
<p>"How An Alexandria Man Came To Lead One Of The First Civil Rights Protests". WAMU. October 3, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
<p>"The History of the Alexandria Black History Museum". Retrieved January 26, 2018.
<p>"Robert Robinson Library - African American Historic Sites Database". African American Historic Sites Database. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
<p>"Locations and Hours". alexlibraryva.org. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
<p>"Library" (PDF). Alexandria Library. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
<p>"Apply for a Passport". alexlibraryva.org. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
<p>"Alexandria Library Barrett Branch". February 4, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2018.

James M. Duncan, Jr. Branch Library, Alexandria Library
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