Library Hours

 

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

 

LIBRARY HISTORY

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

NEWS

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