Editing Carnegie library (section)

==Continuing legacy==
[[File:2008-0601-DC-CityMuseumCarnegieLibrary.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.]] is located in a former Carnegie library and is on the U.S. [[National Register of Historic Places]].]]
Carnegie established charitable trusts which have continued his philanthropic work.  But they had reduced their investment in libraries even before his death. There has continued to be support for library projects, for example in [[South Africa]].<ref>[http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/fulltext/LandC_34_1_Rochester.pdf The Carnegie Corporation and South Africa:  Non-European Library Services] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828132624/http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/fulltext/LandC_34_1_Rochester.pdf |date=August 28, 2008 }} ''Libraries & Culture'', [http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/landc-toc-v34-no1.php Volume 34, No. 1] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612174149/http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/landc-toc-v34-no1.php |date=June 12, 2010 }} (Winter 1999), from the [[University of Texas at Austin]]</ref>

In 1992, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that, according to a survey conducted by George Bobinski, dean of the School of Information and Library Studies at the [[State University at Buffalo]], 1,554 of the 1,681 original Carnegie library buildings in the United States still existed, and 911 were still used as libraries. He found that 276 were unchanged, 286 had been expanded, 175 had been remodeled, 243 had been demolished, and others had been converted to other uses.<ref name=journal>{{Citation |last=Strum |first=Charles |title=Belleville Journal; Restoring Heritage and Raising Hopes for Future |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 2, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/02/nyregion/belleville-journal-restoring-heritage-and-raising-hopes-for-future.html?src=pm |access-date=September 29, 2011 |quote=Dr. George Bobinksi, dean of the School of Information and Library Studies at the State University at Buffalo, says 1,681 libraries were built with Carnegie money, mostly between 1898 and 1917.In a survey, he found that at least 1,554 of the buildings still exist, with only 911 of these still in use as public libraries. At least 276 of the survivors are unchanged, while 243 have been demolished, 286 have been expanded and 175 have been remodeled. Others have been turned into condominiums, community centers or shops. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114082153/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/02/nyregion/belleville-journal-restoring-heritage-and-raising-hopes-for-future.html?src=pm |archive-date=November 14, 2013  }}</ref>

While hundreds of the library buildings have been adapted for use as museums, community centers, office buildings, residences, or other uses, more than half of those in the United States still serve their communities as libraries over a century after their construction.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carnegie libraries by state |publisher=American Volksporting Association |year=1996 |url=http://www.ava.org/clubs/holyfamilywalkers/list_of_carnegie_libraries.pdf |access-date=October 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414202910/http://www.ava.org/clubs/holyfamilywalkers/list_of_carnegie_libraries.pdf |archive-date=April 14, 2012 }}</ref> Many are located in what are now middle- to low-income neighborhoods. For example, Carnegie libraries still form the nucleus of the [[New York Public Library]] system in [[New York, New York|New York City]], with 31 of the original 39 buildings still in operation; Carnegie Libraries operate in all 5 Boroughs of New York City across its three library systems. Also, the main library and eighteen branches of the [[Pittsburgh]] public library system are Carnegie libraries. The public library system there is named the [[Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carnegielibrary.org/|title=Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh|website=Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh|access-date=April 29, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102115802/https://www.carnegielibrary.org/|archive-date=January 2, 2018}}</ref>

In the late 1940s, the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]] arranged for microfilming of the correspondence files relating to Andrew Carnegie's gifts and grants to communities for the public libraries and church organs. They discarded the original materials. The microfilms are open for research as part of the Carnegie Corporation of New York Records collection, residing at [[Columbia University]] Rare Book and Manuscript Library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/collections/carnegie/index.html|title=Rare Book & Manuscript Library|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114092250/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/collections/carnegie/index.html|archive-date=January 14, 2009}}</ref> Archivists did not microfilm photographs and blueprints of the Carnegie Libraries. The number and nature of documents within the correspondence files varies widely. Such documents may include correspondence, completed applications and questionnaires, newspaper clippings, illustrations, and building dedication programs.

UK correspondence files relating to individual libraries have been preserved in [[Edinburgh]] (see the article [[List of Carnegie libraries in Europe]]).

Beginning in the 1930s during the Great Depression, some libraries were meticulously measured, documented and photographed under the [[Historic American Buildings Survey]] (HABS) program of the [[National Park Service]]. This was part of an effort to record and preserve significant buildings.<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516223912/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer |date=May 16, 2008 }}, Permanent Collection, ''American Memory'' from the Library of Congress</ref> Other documentation has been collected by local historical societies. In 1935, the centennial of Carnegie's birth, a copy of the portrait of him originally painted by [[F. Luis Mora]] was given to libraries which he had helped fund.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Belmar Public Library |work=Wall, New Jersey |publisher=American towns |url=http://www.americantowns.com/nj/wall/venues/belmar-public-library |access-date=October 3, 2011}}</ref> Many of the Carnegie libraries in the United States, whatever their current uses, have been recognized by listing on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The first, the Carnegie Library in [[Carnegie Free Library of Braddock|Braddock, Pennsylvania]], was designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] in March 2012. Some Carnegie Libraries, have been replaced in name with that of city libraries such as the Epiphany library in New York City.