St. Louis Mercantile Library
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The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River.[1] Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a Special Collections library within the Thomas Jefferson Library. The majority of library materials can be assigned to one of four categories: the General (Core) Collection, the John W. Barriger Railroad Library, the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, or the Art Museum.[2] The collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library have been named a City Landmark by the city of St. Louis, Mo., due to the cultural significance of the library.[3]
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St. Louis Mercantile Library | |
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Location | United States of America |
Type | Special collections |
Scope | Americana |
Established | 1846 |
Branch of | Thomas Jefferson Library |
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Items collected | |
Size | Over 250,000 books and 400 archival collections |
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Director | John N. Hoover |
Public transit access | MetroBus Red At UMSL-North station |
Website | http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/ |
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