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The Oakland Public Library is the public library in Oakland, California. Opened in 1878, the Oakland Public Library currently serves the city of Oakland, along with neighboring smaller cities Emeryville and Piedmont. The Oakland Public Library has the largest collection of any public library in the East Bay, featuring approximately 1.5 million ...
The current Riverside Public Library is adjacent to the site of the elaborate original. 89: Roseville Roseville: Apr 25, 1911: $10,000 557 Lincoln St, Roseville, CA 95678 Designed by W. H. Weeks, now a museum. 90: Sacramento: Sacramento: Feb 26, 1914: $100,000 828 I St, Sacramento, CA 95814 Part of the Central branch, Sacramento Public Library ...
In 1982, the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS) was invited into the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, making it the first Oakland city library with a predominantly African American focused collection. The collection was housed in the entire left side of the library where the children's section of the library is now located.
Rockridge branch of the Oakland Public Library. The main thoroughfare in Rockridge is College Avenue. The district is bounded by 51st Street on the southern end and Berkeley's Elmwood district on the northern end. The College Avenue strip running through Rockridge is home to more than 80 restaurants, cafes and upscale retail stores, including ...
Oakland: Now the Temescal Branch. 106: Oakland Free Library-Golden Gate Branch: Oakland Free Library-Golden Gate Branch: February 16, 1996 : 5606 San Pablo Ave., 1098 56th St. Oakland: 107: Oakland Free Library-Melrose Branch: Oakland Free Library-Melrose Branch: February 16, 1996
(The Berkeley Public Library also has a tool-lending library at their nearby South Branch.) The Temescal branch of the Oakland Public Library operates this facility, which lends tools, free of charge, to library patrons for repairs and home-improvement projects. The Tool Lending Library also has instructional materials (books, videos, etc.) and ...
Chann, Ernest (1976). "Brief History of Oakland Chinatown." Unpublished monograph. At Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room. Chow, Willard T. (June 1, 1977). The Reemergence of an Inner City: The Pivot of Chinese Settlement in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-88247 ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Library may refer to: Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Oakland Public Library in Oakland, California; Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Sacramento Public Library in Sacramento, California; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose, California; Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.