Branches
In 1968 the Bay Ridges branch of the Pickering Public Library opened as a storefront operations and in 1976 when it became too overcrowded, moved to Liverpool Road adjacent to the existing community center. It was the first specially built library building in the Pickering system and the first Pickering Library with an automated check out system. The Bay Ridges branch served the community until the summer of 1998.
The Rouge Hill Branch also started as a storefront location on April 3, 1970 and included an administrative office. In 1974 the Rouge Hill branch took up residence in an unused church on Rougemont Drive and housed the administrative office as well as the technical services and audio/visual departments of the Pickering Public Libraries. The Rouge Hill branch closed in November 2000 to make way for the new Petticoat Creek branch.
The Greenwood Branch opened June 1, 1980 in the refurbished S.S.# 10 (Greenwood) School House. The Brougham Library closed at this time and the collection was moved into the new School House Library. Lt. Governor Pauline McGibbon and Farley Mowat were among the guests invited to the official opening. On Saturday January 17, 2009, residents of Greenwood celebrated the grand re-opening of the Library's Greenwood Branch after a lengthy renovation period.
By the early 1980s it was apparent that a large central library was necessary in Pickering. In June 1982 The Liverpool Community Branch was opened as an interim branch until a central library could be built and opened. Construction began in May 1988 and the new Central Library opened May 22, 1990 in the Pickering Civic Complex. It was fully automated and for the first time all the branches were truly connected via the automated catalogue and LAN systems.
The most recent addition to the Pickering Public Library system was the Petticoat Creek Branch, which adjoins the Petticoat Creek Community Center. The official opening took place on Thursday, June 14, 2001.
Read more about this topic: Pickering Public Library
Famous quotes containing the word branches:
“A woman is a branchy tree
And man a singing wind;
And from her branches carelessly
He takes what he can find.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 14:7-10.
“Think how stood the white pine tree on the shore of the Chesuncook, its branches soughing with the four winds, and every individual needle trembling in the sunlight,—think how it stands with it now,—sold, perchance, to the New England Friction-Match Company!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)