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The City of Huntington Beach hired the architectural firm of Anthony & Langford to design what became a 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m 2) expansion. The Central library building was expanded to enclose an outdoor spiral ramp and fountain area. The new wing opened in 1994 and included a new Children's area with its own story time theater.
The Library was dedicated in 1951 by Huntington Beach Mayor Vernon Langenbeck. The Main Street Branch Library held a collection of between 40,000 and 50,000 books and served as the main public library for the community from 1951 up until 1975.
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, United States.The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington.The population was 198,711 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth most populous city in Orange County, the most populous beach city in Orange County, and the seventh most populous city in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ...
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Huntington Library, built in 1920; its main reading room now is an exhibition hall. As a landowner, Henry Edwards Huntington (1850–1927) played a major role in the growth of Southern California . Huntington was born in 1850, in Oneonta, New York , and was the nephew and heir of Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900), one of the famous "Big Four ...
The library provides both physical and online collections. Users require a free library card to access most services. Approximate figures for service use in the year 2009–2010 include 455,000 cardholders, and over 7 million items borrowed; [1] 400,000 online subscription database searches, 600,000 items renewed online, 700,000 holds placed using the online catalog, 30,000 eBooks circulated ...
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Library open hours and staff were reduced by approximately 50% as a result. 1994 - New Albany Library opened at 1247 Marin Avenue. 1995 - Public access to the World Wide Web available at Fremont Main, San Lorenzo, and Union City Libraries funded by the State Info People Grant.