The Georgina Cole Library, located in Carlsbad, California

Carlsbad, California

-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Carlsbad had a population of 105,328. The population density was 2,693.1 people per square mile . The racial makeup of Carlsbad was 87,205 White, 1,379 African American, 514 Native American, 7,460 Asian, 198 Pacific Islander, 4,189 from other...

, originally opened in November 1967, and re-opened on April 15, 2000, after a half-year restoration project. It is a full service library named after Georgina Cole, the city's first library director. The Cole Library is a branch of the Carlsbad City Library

Carlsbad City Library

The Carlsbad City Library , located in Carlsbad, California, opened in 1999to ease the overcrowding at the city's Georgina Cole Library. It's open seven days a week. The library features a monthly Book Club and sponsors the Magee Park Poets....

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Friends of the Carlsbad Library, and the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation, support many of the library programs.

History

In 1916, the city began a library collection of loanable books at a general store. Outgrowing the space, the book collection moved to a newspaper office, a former church building, and a water company building. By 1956, it became an independent city library. The last home for the books before moving into the Cole Library included splitting the collection between two downtown buildings: the children's books were housed at an old church on Roosevelt Street, while the adult books were in a bank building on Elm Avenue (now Carlsbad Village Drive).

When the library opened in 1967 at 1250 Elm Avenue, it housed 45,000 volumes. Area museums, including San Diego Museum of Man

San Diego Museum of Man

The San Diego Museum of Man is a museum of anthropology located in Balboa Park, San Diego, California and housed in several historic landmark buildings.-Exhibits:...

, rotated exhibits in the upstairs room.

External links

• Carlsbad libraries: Collection Development Policy, April 2008 (.pdf)