Each is developing local service through its territory, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh actually going out into Allegheny County. Both have built up basic services for information and reference, and for children and young people. Each has special subject strength, with special subject librarians. They have become library centers of significance beyond their City borders, both for readers who come into the Central facilities, and to the librarians who look to the large institutions for leadership. In both cases, local neighborhood service within their own boundaries has gaps and weaknesses.
Uneven development is evident in their special subject resources.
These institutions should be built up, not just for their own cities, but also for the contribution they can make to state-wide library facilities. The Library for the Blind had operated from several upper levels of Central's book stack until 1959 when it was moved to the Allegheny Regional Branch. The new quarters were an improvement in every way. The Sheraden Avenue Branch, housed for many years in the basement of the Allendale School, was given larger and more attractive quarters in the new school building which replaced the old one during 1959. Community Events Calendar A potentially useful service, begun in 1958 was abandoned the next year.