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TheIshpeming Carnegie Public Library (ICPL) is a public library in the City of Ishpeming, Michigan. 317 North Main Street is where the library building has always stood since 1904. The library is named after Andrew Carnegie. Andrew, originally born in Scotland in the year 1835, contributed funds in 1902 for a free Public Library in Ishpeming, one of 2,800 others for which he contributed dollars. This generous man lived from 1835-1919.

During the fiscal year 2008-2009, the library's total collection of items was at 60,000. This includes adult, teen, and juvenile fiction and nonfiction, audio books, downloadable audio books, music CD's, magazines, DVD's/videos, and more. During that same year, the library had 36,000 visitors. The Ishpeming Library also paritcipates in both the Michigan Electronic Library Catalog (MelCat) Interlibrary Loan Service and the Upper Peninsula Regional of Library Cooperation (UPRLC) Patron Initiated Interlibrary Loan (PII). With both of these programs, the library is able to provide their patrons with a wide variety of materials and resources that may otherwise not be available. Over 3,000 titles were loaned over and 2,300 titles were borrowed through the service during the 2008-2009 year.