Enjoy global language picture book read-aloud sessions in with your Glendale Children's staff.
Enjoy this Spanish and English storytime presented by library staff.
AGE GROUP: | Toddlers | Preschool | Family | Early Elementary | Children | Babies |
EVENT TYPE: | Storytimes |
TAGS: | Toddlers | Storytime | Spanish | Preschool | Glendale Central Library | Early Elementary | Children | Central Library | Bilingual | Babies |
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.
