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Its central library, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, is also the main library of the San Jose State University. Built in 2003, King Library is the first joint use library in the United States shared by a major university as its only library and a large city as its main library. It has more than 1.6 million items.
As of 2018, it is the largest library building in the western United States built in a single construction project, with over 475,000 square feet (44,000 m 2) of space on eight floors and approximately 1.6 million volumes. The King Library is a collaboration between the City of San José and San José State University: it is the main library ...
By 1932, the Library operated on a budget of $25,000 and had a total of 30 branch libraries. In December 1932, the County Library assumed responsibility for library service to all County schools except those in San Jose, Palo Alto, and Santa Clara City. During the 1950s, Santa Clara County experienced tremendous growth and urbanization.
[16] [17] Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km 2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around 1.95 ...
De Mattei Court — named after Michael de Mattei of San Jose Ravenna Paste Company. [8] [failed verification] Delmas Avenue (downtown San Jose) — Antoine Delmas, who owned the French Gardens tract. [9] Di Fiore Drive — named after the Di Fiore family and their cannery and orchard operations in the nearby Burbank neighborhood.
When Walnut was successfully delivered in 1961, the San Jose lab turned its attention to commercializing the system under the project name "Cypress". [ 2 ] [ a ] A direct analog of Walnut for document storage became the 1350 Photo Image Retrieval System , while the same basic system adapted to storing computer data became the 1360 Photo-Digital ...
Bascom station was built as part of the Vasona Light Rail extension project. This project extended VTA light rail service from the intersection of Woz Way and West San Carlos St in San Jose in a southwesterly direction to the Winchester station in western Campbell. [3] The official opening date for this station was October 1, 2005.
Prior to computerization, library tasks were performed manually and independently from one another. Selectors ordered materials with ordering slips, cataloguers manually catalogued sources and indexed them with the card catalog system (in which all bibliographic data was kept on a single index card), fines were collected by local bailiffs, and users signed books out manually, indicating their ...