Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library (Alexandria, Va.)

CHARLES E. BEATLEY, JR. CENTRAL LIBRARY
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<p>Hours and Location
<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>5005 Duke Street
<p>Alexandria
<p>Alexandria, VA 22304
<p>Tel: 703.746.1702
<p>Fax: 703.746.1763
<p>About The Branch
<p>Parking: The library has a large parking lot with 175 spaces.
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<p>Public Transit:
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<p>Metrorail: King Street Station (Yellow & Blue Lines 3.2 miles); Van Dorn Station (Blue Line 2.1 miles)
<p>Metrobus: 29K/N, 21C
<p>DASH Bus: 30, 32
<p>For reasonable disability accommodation, contact jgregorio@alexlibraryva.org or call 703.746.1701 or TTY 703.746.1790.

Charles E. Beatley
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<p>Charles E. Beatley
<p>Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia
<p>In office
<p>July 1, 1967 – July 1, 1976
<p>Preceded by Frank E. Mann
<p>Succeeded by Frank E. Mann
<p>In office
<p>July 1, 1979 – July 1, 1985
<p>Preceded by Frank E. Mann
<p>Succeeded by Jim Moran
<p>Personal details
<p>Born May 17, 1916
<p>Urbana, Illinois
<p>Died December 29, 2003 (aged 87)
<p>Alexandria, Virginia
<p>Political party Democratic
<p>Residence Alexandria, Virginia
<p>Alma mater Ohio State University
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<p>Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library
<p>Charles E. Beatley, Jr. (May 17, 1916 – December 29, 2003) was an American politician who was the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.[1] A native of Ohio, Beatley earned his undergraduate degree from Ohio State University in 1938, and received his master's degree in 1947.[2] As a civilian pilot, he flew for Pan American-Grace Airways between college degrees.[3] He also ferried military planes to overseas bases as a civilian pilot during World War II.[3]
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<p>Elected to the Alexandria City Council in 1966 as a Democrat, Beatley became mayor the following year, and served until 1976, when he was defeated by former Virginia delegate Frank E. Mann, who ran as an Independent. After retiring from United Airlines, Beatley ran again for mayor at the urging of local Republicans and Democrats, was elected in a landslide, and served until 1985. Beatley became known for preserving Alexandria's historic heritage while revitalizing its business district, as well as for promoting both local and regional public transportation as a board member of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.[4]
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<p>He lost reelection by 2,000 votes in 1985 to Jim Moran, who would later serve as a member of congress representing the surrounding area. One of his aides, Del Pepper, won election to the city council in 1985 and served for 36 years until 2021.[5]
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<p>The Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library of the Alexandria library system and the nearby Charles Beatley Bridge (which crosses Holmes Run) in Alexandria are named in his honor.[6]
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<p>References
<p>Political Graveyard - Mayors of Alexandria, Virginia, retrieved 2010-02-15
<p>"HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 475". 2004 Session. Virginia House of Delegates. March 8, 2004. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
<p>Sullivan, Patricia and Vogel, Steve. "Alexandria Mayor Was City's Longest-Serving", The Washington Post, 01 January 2004. Accessed 01 February 2018.
<p>Alexandria, Virginia - Charles E. Beatley Bio, retrieved 2013-02-16
<p>Mary Jordan (1985-06-25). "Alexandria's Beatley Vows Not to Fade Away". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
<p>"Beatley Central Library". Alexandria, Virginia: Alexandria Library. Archived from the original on 2017-02-26.
<p>Political offices
<p>Preceded by
<p>Frank E. Mann
<p>Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Virginia
<p>1967–1976 Succeeded by
<p>Frank E. Mann
<p>Preceded by
<p>Frank E. Mann
<p>Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Virginia
<p>1979–1985 Succeeded by
<p>Jim Moran
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<p>Mayors of Alexandria, Virginia
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<p>1780–1801
<p>Before inclusion in the District of Columbia
<p>Hooe
<p>Hendricks
<p>Herbert
<p>Conway
<p>Keith
<p>Kirk
<p>Arell
<p>Fitzgerald
<p>Hunter
<p>Ramsay
<p>Mease
<p>Hunter
<p>Marsteller
<p>J. Taylor
<p>Ramsay
<p>Mease
<p>Dundas
<p>Thompson
<p>Peyton
<p>Dundas
<p>Peyton
<p>Alexander
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<p>1801–1846
<p>While within the District of Columbia
<p>Taylor
<p>Smith
<p>Slacum
<p>Hoffman
<p>Dick
<p>Thompson
<p>Powell
<p>Herbert
<p>Simms
<p>Lee
<p>Hoffman
<p>Neale
<p>Roberts
<p>Mason
<p>Roberts
<p>Hooe
<p>Wise
<p>Hooe
<p>Snowden
<p>Violett
<p>Eaches
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<p>1846–present
<p>After retrocession to Virginia
<p>Veitch
<p>Buckingham
<p>L. Taylor
<p>Muir
<p>Wise
<p>Massey
<p>Price
<p>McKenzie
<p>Ware
<p>Latham
<p>Berkley
<p>Latham
<p>Berkley
<p>Kemper
<p>Johnson
<p>Kemper
<p>Smith
<p>Beckham
<p>J. Smoot
<p>Downham
<p>Strauss
<p>Simpson
<p>Paff
<p>Fisher
<p>W. Smoot
<p>Jones
<p>Duncan
<p>Pierce
<p>E. Ticer
<p>Davison
<p>Ruffner
<p>Wilkins
<p>Backus
<p>Beverley
<p>Bendheim
<p>Mann
<p>Beatley
<p>Mann
<p>Beatley
<p>Moran
<p>P. Ticer
<p>Donley
<p>Euille
<p>Silberberg
<p>Wilson

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<p>Distinctive Massing and Roof Lines
<p>The city’s master plan envisioned that the central library would anchor a new civic center on the west side of Alexandria along the prominent thoroughfare of Duke Street. By organizing the internal programmatic functions as a series of distinctive volumes around a public courtyard, we established an axis that gestured toward the future development. The building is topped by a dozen roofs that recall the community’s roots in the historic Old Town. Inside, the various library departments gain their own identity within the open plan by the forms of the ceilings beneath the distinctive roof lines.
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<p>Master Plan
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<p>Architecture
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<p>Interior Design
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<p>Professional Credits:
<p>Associate Architect – PGAL
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<p>Location:
<p>Alexandria, Virginia
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<p>Size:
<p>45,000 SF
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<p>Completion Date:
<p>1999
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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.

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<p>The Beatley Friends help the Library achieve what it might not be able to on its own. We have raised more than $180,000 for the Beatley Library since 2012. Read the Friends' latest annual report.
<p>We've funded enhancements like these:
<p>New murals in the Children's area
<p>Programs beyond the library’s budget, such as the StoryWalk in Holmes Run Park for children, the Tween Winter Olympics, cooking and Tai Chi classes for adults, and English lessons for speakers of other languages
<p>Adult, teen and children's programs, such as All Alexandria Reads & SummerQuest (Check out the event calendar for Beatley and the other branches on the Alexandria Libraries website)
<p>Large Meeting Room chairs that are much more comfortable and also easier to
<p>arrange for events since they can fold, are lighter, and easier to store
<p>Specialized computer stations for the children’s reading area for young users
<p>with pre-installed educational games. They replaced heavily-used old
<p>computers that were becoming unreliable and offered limited programs
<p>Also, we advocate for the Library’s Capital Budget in front of the mayor, city manager, and city council.
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<p>Going forward, the Friends are considering supporting projects like the following:
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<p>A book dedication program
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