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Happy 50th Birthday to Modesto Library
November 2021 marks the 50th year of the Modesto Library being in its current location. In celebration of this milestone, we’ll post articles and photos of the…
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Historic Groundbreaking Takes Place in Modesto
April 1970: Earth Day is celebrated for the first time, Apollo 13 tells Houston, “We’ve had a problem” but returns safely to Earth, “Midnight Cowboy” wins the…
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Library materials, finding tools change in last 50 years
Here, some old photos remind us that, in the 1970s, many of the materials available to library customers, and the tools used to find them, were different…
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The “new” library’s librarian
Stanislaus County Librarian Oscar Smaalders Oscar Smaalders, the Stanislaus County Librarian from 1968 until his retirement…
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A look back at Modesto Library history
Libraries could be found in Modesto as early as 1884 with a series of free reading rooms. In 1905 the Rodgers Free Reading Room merged with a…
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Calling all memories
Congratulations to the Modesto Library, or actually the building at 15th and I Streets. Fifty years ago, the building was dedicated and opened to the public on Nov….
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