BGuthrie Photos: CA -- San Diego -- Public Library

CA -- San Diego -- Public Library:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SDLIB_150708_010.JPG: The three most important documents a free society gives area a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. -- [E.L. Doctorow]
2. SDLIB_150708_020.JPG: I liked the open book windows
3. SDLIB_150708_035.JPG: Valeiras Sculpture Garden Cultivate
4. SDLIB_150708_047.JPG: Qualcomm Dome Terrace
5. SDLIB_150708_055.JPG: We read to know we are not alone. -- [C.S. Lewis]
6. SDLIB_150708_074.JPG: Roy McMakin Recreations of furniture found discarded in alleys and on curbs while driving around San Diego several bright summer afternoons with David 2013
7. SDLIB_150708_077.JPG: The greatest gift is a passion for reading. -- [Elizabeth Hardwick]
8. SDLIB_150708_086.JPG: The moment of successful creation is an intensely thrilling experience. Only those who have experienced it know what it's really like. A few strokes of a charcoal pencil... and there is a dancing figure. A few dabs of yellow ochre oil paint... and there is a yellow wheat field shimmering in the sunlight. The very act of creating can make you feel an intense happiness. Russell Baldwin The Moment of Successful Creation 20th century
9. SDLIB_150708_099.JPG: Stairway to Somewhere Scan the QR Code to watch a short video with the architect, Rob Quigley, speaking about the Stairway to Somewhere.
10. SDLIB_150708_100.JPG: Ernest Silva Lanterns 1999
11. SDLIB_150708_105.JPG: Gary Hill Triangulating Hives (for Magdelena) 2013
12. SDLIB_150708_117.JPG: Sheldon Kirby Talisman 68 1968
13. SDLIB_150708_133.JPG: Jackson Woolley & Ellamarie Woolley Creative Sun 1964
14. SDLIB_150708_138.JPG: Gail Roberts Tone 2010
15. SDLIB_150708_165.JPG: This is the winning car in the 2014 Super Stock Division of the San Diego Soap Box Derby. Driven by 9 year old John Taff, the car went on to Akron, Ohio to represent San Diego in the World Championship.
Wikipedia Description: San Diego Public Library
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The San Diego Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Diego, California.

History:

The San Diego Public Library was established on May 19, 1882, by an elected board of library trustees, one of whom was civic leader and philanthropist George Marston. The first location was rented space in the Commercial Bank building at Fifth and G streets, and the new library opened its doors to the public for the first time on July 15, 1882. San Diego was the first city west of the Mississippi River to receive a Carnegie Library grant. The grant was received in 1899 and the library built in 1902. The library moved to Eighth and E streets where the new Carnegie Library was constructed.

A notable librarian during this period was Clara Estelle Breed (1906-1994), who served as children's librarian at the downtown branch and was appointed City Librarian in 1945, a post she held for 25 years. She founded numerous branch libraries and established the Serra Cooperative Library System, which allows users to borrow books from other libraries in San Diego and Imperial counties. She maintained contact with many Japanese American children when they were interned with their families during World War II; her correspondence with those children is now on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

In 1952, the Carnegie Library was demolished and a new Central Library was opened at the same location on June 27, 1954. That library closed permanently on June 9, 2013, to begin the 10-week process of transferring its 2.6-million-item collection to the new library. Over the years, many branch libraries have also been opened throughout the City.

In 2010, construction began on a new $185 million Central Library at 330 Park Boulevard in downtown San Diego, designed by architect Rob Quigley and topped with an iconic steel-and-mesh dome. It is scheduled to open in September 2013. It will include a new charter high school, e3 Civic High, which is billed as the only school in the United States to be housed within a library. The school will be on the sixth and seventh floors of the library and will be visible to, but not accessible by, the public. The school will serve grades 9 through 12 with an eventual student body of 500.
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