Field Session Proposal

Making Preservation Work!

National Preservation Conference

October 31-November 5, 2006 _ Pittsburgh, PA

To submit your proposal via e-mail, attach it in MSWord format with information appearing in exact order below. Send it to conference@nthp.org with “Field Session Proposal Form” in the subject line.

SESSION MANAGER CONTACT INFORMATION

2006 January 12

NAME:_Glenn A. Walsh __

ADDRESS: __P.O. Box 1041

CITY: Pittsburgh STATE:_Pennsylvania___ ZIP: _15230-1041__

PHONE: 412-561-7876 E-MAIL: < gawalsh@andrewcarnegie.cc >

FIELD SESSION ELEMENTS

PROPOSED TITLE OF SESSION:

TOUR SEVEN EARLY CARNEGIE LIBRARIES

The title should be brief (5 word maximum), cover the key point and “market” the session to attendees.

REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS:

40-word description:

Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry in Greater Pittsburgh, and it was here that he started the movement in America to bring public libraries to the people. This tour will highlight seven of the earliest Carnegie Libraries, showing how each has been preserved and adapted to modern times.

Itinerary and Website addresses for sites that will be visited. With the exception of the beginning (9:15 a.m.) and end (6:00 p.m.) times, all other times given on itinerary are guidelines, depending on transportation. Written bus directions are to be determined.

9:15 a.m. Bus departs Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel. Field Session Manager, Glenn A. Walsh, welcomes everyone aboard and distributes itineraries. En route, Mr. Walsh will discuss the schedule, route, and learning objectives.

10:00 a.m.

Oakmont Carnegie Library

< http://www.oakmontlibrary.org/ein/oakmont/index.htm >

This library is close to completion (completion probably in the Spring) of a $2 million expansion of the original library. The original library will, primarily, be used as the children's area.

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11:00 a.m.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Homewood Branch

< http://www.carnegielibrary.org/locations/homewood/ >

This would show one of the larger city branches, located near Pittsburgh's original "millionaires’ row," which went through a recent rehabilitation.

12:00 Noon

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville Branch

< http://www.carnegielibrary.org/locations/lawrenceville/ >

This was the prototype for more than one hundred neighborhood branch libraries built in cities

throughout the country This library includes the first specifically-designed and constructed library

children's room. Further, the book stacks were specifically designed so the librarian at the

circulation desk could look at all aisles, thus allowing the public direct access to the stacks.

1:00 p.m. LUNCH –

Great Hall of the historic Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science < http://www.planetarium.cc >, now being used as a café for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh < http://www.pittsburghkids.org >.

Note that The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science is right next-door to the next library on the itinerary: The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Allegheny Regional Branch.

2:00 p.m.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Allegheny Regional Branch

< http://www.carnegielibrary.org/locations/allegheny/ >

America's first *publicly-funded* Carnegie Library, located in the neighborhood where Andrew

Carnegie grew-up. Includes world’s first Carnegie Hall (opened a year before Carnegie Hall in New York City). One of the very few {if not the only} Carnegie Libraries to include a clock tower. This could also highlight the urban renewal movement of the 1960s, which resulted in the gutting and "modernization" of this library's interior.

3:00 p.m.

Braddock Carnegie Library

< http://www.braddocklibrary.org/ein/braddock/index.html >

America's first Carnegie Library, and one which is having financial problems at the present time.

4:00 p.m.

Carnegie Library of Homestead

< http://www.homesteadlibrary.org/ein/homested/index.html >

One of the most impressive Carnegie Libraries (probably due to the aftermath of the Homestead Strike), this library has been restored despite minimal local government financial support, due to the closing of the Homestead Works of the U.S. Steel Corporation.

5:00 p.m.

Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, Carnegie PA

< http://www.carnegiecarnegie.com/ >

Located in Andrew Carnegie's namesake community, the fourth Carnegie Library built and endowed by Andrew Carnegie, which almost closed in the 1990s, has begun an $8.6 million restoration project. This library also includes the first specifically-designed and constructed library children's room in a suburban

library.

6:00 p.m. Return to the Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel.

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SAMPLE BUDGET

The National Trust averages the costs for all tours and typically offers one set price for a half-day and one for a full-day tour. Ticket fees are kept as low as possible to make the field sessions affordable for the conference attendees. The chart shows typical expenses for an all-day field session.

EXPENSES COST PER PERSON PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS

Ticketing and Processing Fee $ 7.00 Paid directly to National Trust

Bus Costs $17.00 (motorcoach) Paid by National Trust.

Admission Fees $ 0.00

Lunches (for all-day tours, encourage $15.00 Session manager submits check request for deposit

use of historic sites) and a reimbursement request for the remainder of the

money owed to restaurant/caterer

Handouts (cost of copying handouts $ 2.00 Paid by session manager, reimbursed by National Trust

for each tour participant)

Miscellaneous Costs $ 3.00 Paid by session manager, reimbursed by National Trust

TOTAL COST $44.00 (using motorcoach)

SUGGESTED MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: _X__ Bus (47 passengers)

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PEOPLE ONE FIELD SESSION CAN ACCOMMODATE: _47__ people (recommend at least 30)

NUMBER OF TIMES FIELD SESSION CAN BE OFFERED: __2 or 3__ times (more than once preferred)

Total number of people able to take tour during conference: __94 or 141__ people

SELECT PREFERRED DATE(S), LENGTH AND TIME(S): (Check all that are possible.)

_X__ Tuesday, Oct. 31 _X__ Full Day

_X__ Wednesday, Nov. 1 _X__ Full Day

_X__ Thursday, Nov. 2 _X__ Full Day