[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 160 (Monday, October 22, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2193]
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                  A TRIBUTE TO GLENDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY

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                          HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 22, 2007

  Mr. SCHIFF. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay special recognition to 
the Glendale Public Library upon the celebration of its One Hundredth 
Anniversary.
  Services at the Glendale Public Library were first provided in 1906 
when the members of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and 
philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures 
to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated 
poolroom with seventy books, and became a municipal library the next 
year. The Central Library building opened in 1914 with the help of a 
grant from the Andrew Carnegie Corporation. By 1923, the City's 35,000 
residents were borrowing about 150,000 books a year. The Casa Verdugo 
Branch was established in 1926 as the library system's second 
neighborhood library and in that same year the Central Library building 
was enlarged to twice its original size.
  Throughout its one hundred year tenure, the growing Glendale Public 
Library has been committed to serving the community from the Library's 
collections of almost 700,000 books, over 25,000 music CDs and almost 
14,000 movies. The library offers a large collection of non-English 
materials, particularly in Armenian, in order to better serve 
Glendale's diverse community. Among its wide array of services, the 
library comprises a Genocide Memorial Collection, which it hopes will 
encourage research in this field. The Glendale community has also 
greatly benefited from the technological advances at the Glendale 
Public Library. The addition of wireless Internet and the ability to 
download literally thousands of magazine and newspaper articles make 
the Library and its Web site--open 24 hours, seven days a week--
valuable community resources
  I ask all Members to join me today in honoring the Glendale Public 
Library upon the celebration of its One Hundredth Anniversary. The 
entire community joins me in thanking the Glendale Public Library for 
the outstanding services that it has provided for California's 29th 
Congressional District.

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