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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 ...
An attempt to pass a parcel tax to build a new main Alameda Free Library failed in 1996. In 2000, Alameda voters passed Measure O to approve a bond to pay for a new main library building. A California state bond measure provided matching funds to cover the new building's total cost of $26.1 million. [4]
The Alameda County Library, in Alameda County, California, is a public library system that provides services from eleven branch libraries in the cities of Albany, Dublin, Fremont, Newark and Union City and the unincorporated communities of Castro Valley, Cherryland and San Lorenzo. According to 2005/2006 statistics, the total service area ...
The AAMLO is located at the Charles S. Greene building which previously was the Carnegie library.The building served as the Oakland Main Library from 1902 to 1951. [3]The AAMLO began as a private collection in 1946, and on July 2, 1965, became the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS).
Blair Park is a small park in the city of Piedmont, California located in the Oakland Hills near the head of Moraga Canyon. Originally developed as a 75-acre (30 ha) amusement park, it was much larger than the 5.5 acres (2.2 ha) it currently occupies. [1] Blair Park is the only natural open space left in the city of Piedmont. [2]
Oakland Library may refer to: Oakland Public Library, in Oakland, California; African American Museum and Library at Oakland, in Oakland, California; Oakland Public Library, in Oakland, Maine; Oakland Library, a branch of the Lee County Library in Georgia
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.
The Carnegie Oxnard Public Library, now the Carnegie Art Museum (424 South C St) was built and opened in 1906 under a $12,000 Carnegie grant. It was a functioning library until 1963. and was renovated and reopened in 1980 as the Carnegie Art Museum.