Enjoy more of your favorite Storytime music! Come dance and bounce along to favorite songs while building your baby’s early language and literacy foundations. For babies birth - 18 months old.
Join us for Baby Music and Movement at the Central Library. This Music and Movement program will be indoors in the Children's Room. You are encouraged to bring a blankie to snuggle your little one during the Baby Music and Movement program. This program is for babies birth - 18 months old.
Established in 1906.
Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.
In 1907, the City Trustees passed Ordinance 53 which established and supported a library which "...shall be forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the City of Glendale..." The first year the library had 251 books, 165 registered patrons, and a budget of $248.88.
In 1913, a Carnegie grant of $12,500 made possible the construction of the main library at Kenwood and Fifth (Harvard Street). The building was completed and dedicated November 13, 1914.