The Manchester Electronic Branch Library is a joint collaboration of Information Renaissance and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It represents an experiment in community outreach by identifying, organizing and making available local resources, historic and current, to serve the needs of the Manchester community and to forge a model for expanded library service through the Internet.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has, from its beginnings, sought to extend its services to the community--whether through deposit stations of a hundred or more books available to mill men and street railway men* or through "Home Libraries" placed in a home where ten or twelve children of the neighborhood met and a visitor from the library gave out the books, read aloud or told stories*.
Most recently, through the vision of its late director, Robert B. Croneberger, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh spearheaded the networking of its city-wide system and of forty-one independent libraries in Allegheny County.
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