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The City Council approved a recommendation to hire Glendale-based Charles Walton Associates to prepare a library building program. The proposal will cost between $50,000 and $55,000 and the new library will cost approximately $7 million.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1957
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library 1961 -
Item ID
1953AN
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A new $340,000 computer system will be installed in the library. using Inlex software and Hewlet Packard hardware, the library will automate the card catalog and the circulation desk providing better control of the library's 150,000 books and 240 periodicals.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library 1961 -
Item ID
1951AN
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The Children's Room will be completely refurbished - partly with city funds and partly from a drive headed by Mayor Charles Gilb. It will be renamed the Jerry Broadwell Children's Library as a memorial to Fire Captain Jerry Broadwell who died in a fire in August 1975.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1946
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 19 ,1975
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 19 ,1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library 1961 -
Gilb, Charles
Item ID
1942AN
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Area librarians agree that recessionary periods create a greater demand for library services. It is ironic that this comes at a time when libraries are hurting from budget cuts. Arcadia and Monrovia have suffered most in this regard, cutting down on personnel and new book purchases and, in Arcadia's case, closing it's audio-visual department and reducing hours.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 25, 1982
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p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 25, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library 1961 -
Item ID
1949AN
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