Sundays
CLOSED
Mondays & Wednesdays
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Tuesdays & Thursdays
10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Fridays
NOON to 4:00 PM
Saturdays
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Story Hour
Thursdays at 10:30 AM
Fax
(724) 938-9119
Phone
(724) 938-2907
The following text is largely a paraphrasing of an essay simply titled “Brief History” and written by the late Elsie Channing. It appeared in a slightly shorter form in the Fall 2005 Friends of the Library Newsletter, The original California Journal. –sClaudia Bennett, President
Board of Trustees
In 1935, forty Federation Club women decided to justify their existence as a civic group by organizing a public library. They rented an empty storeroom in the Parinello building on Third Street, fixed it up, found books, and at 2:00 on the last Saturday of May, opened the doors of California Public Library...Click Here for full story
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