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Phillips Library (Massachusetts)

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37: 356:, and that Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, will be utilized as office and meeting space. The move to Rowley allows the PEM to "provide the highest standards of preservation, care, and protection for the library collection" while offering space for its 1.8 million objects not currently on display at the museum. PEM "sank $ 15 million in the Rowley property between the site purchase and renovations. Many areas are still under construction, including a conservation lab, library digitization space, and a photography studio." The Phillips Library reading room opened in June 2018, with space for up to 14 researchers at a time. 348:, underwent restoration in 1998. The library closed in November 2011 for an extensive $ 20 million "renovation and restoration of the library's John Tucker Daland House and Plummer Hall. The project also included the digitization of the library's catalog." Slated for completion in 2013, the Phillips Library reading room reopened in August 2013 at a temporary location—with limited access to materials—at 1 Second Street, Peabody, Massachusetts. On August 31, 2017, the library's temporary location in Peabody closed, noting: "all access to collections will be suspended from September 1, 2017, through March 31, 2018." 859: 312: 359:
The announcement of the planned movement of the Salem documents collection to the town of Rowley—located about 17 miles (27 km) north of the Peabody-Essex Museum—has sparked protests by historians and interested Salem citizens who don't accept that unique documents regarding Salem's history
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formed in December 2017 after PEM announced it was moving Salem's largest and oldest archival collection from its permanent home at Plummer Hall to a collections center 40 minutes away and not accessible by public transportation.
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On December 8, 2017, Dan L. Monroe, PEM's Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, director and CEO, issued a press release announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to
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in 1857. The Athenaeum provided for space for the Essex Institute and several other groups, and sold the building to the Essex Institute in 1907. The reading room, with its gold-leaf pillars and busts of
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The Phillips Library and Reading Room moved in 2018 to the Peabody Essex Museum Collection Center in Rowley, Massachusetts, a building which had once been the headquarters for the Schylling toy company.
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Prior to 1992, the Essex Institute operated the "James Duncan Phillips Library" cf. Boston Globe, Oct 11, 1988
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Steven Rosenberg. Access a Concern After Museum Cuts Library Hours. Boston Globe, Mar 28, 2004. Pg. 1
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papers (on deposit from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives) and early works by
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Phillips Library Cutbacks Will Hurt Researchers. Boston Globe. Apr 8, 2004. Pg. 4
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The Phillips Library is best known for holding the majority of the original 1692
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Kathy McCabe. A new chapter at Phillips Library. Boston Globe, May 24, 1998
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Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum Collection Center in 2018
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Friends of Salem's Phillips Library | Salem, Massachusetts
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library. It is made up of the collections of the former
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Phillips Library (Salem, Massachusetts)

42°42′49.02″N 70°54′30.85″W / 42.7136167°N 70.9085694°W / 42.7136167; -70.9085694
Rowley, Massachusetts
United States
Special library
books
journals
newspapers
magazines
ephemera
maps
manuscripts
art
https://www.pem.org/visit/library
Rowley, Massachusetts
Rowley, Massachusetts
United States
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
special collections
Peabody Museum of Salem
Essex Institute

Essex Institute Historic District
Salem
Massachusetts
John Tucker Daland House
Salem Athenaeum
Nathaniel Bowditch

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