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The San Diego County Library is a public library system serving San Diego County, California.Any person living in the state is eligible for a free library card. It consists of 33 branches, two bookmobiles, and two 24/7 Library to Go kiosks. [2]
The library was founded on December 13, 1904, when the city passed Ordinance No. 150. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union had previously donated 250 books to the city. The library, when it opened in 1905, was originally located on the upper floor of the Bank of Oceanside's building but relocated to a room on Third Street in February 1915.
The San Diego Public Library was established on May 19, 1882, by an elected board of library trustees, one of whom was civic leader and philanthropist George Marston.The first location was rented space in the Commercial Bank building at Fifth and G streets, and the new library opened its doors to the public for the first time on July 15, 1882.
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
The first library in the community began in 1940. [1] Lincoln Acres is served by a branch of the San Diego County Library system, and the previous building was originally built in 1945. [1] [16] It was purchased from the Civil Conservation Corps in Vista, and moved to its final location in 1961. [1]
Category: Libraries in San Diego County, California. 2 languages. ... San Diego County Library This page was last edited on 21 March 2013, at 21:15 (UTC). Text ...
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is a non-profit membership library in La Jolla, a community in San Diego, California. In 1884, a group of La Jolla women established the La Jolla Reading Club. [1] By 1898, a reading room was constructed on the corner of Girard Avenue and Wall Street. It was incorporated as the Library Association of La Jolla ...
San Diego San Diego: Jul 7, 1899: $60,000 Demolished in 1952. San Diego received California's first Carnegie grant in 1899, with a large well detailed Classical Revival library building opening in 1902. The San Diego Public Library system continues elsewhere. 95: San Francisco Main San Francisco: Jun 20, 1901: $375,000 [3]