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The Albany Library opened its current building in January 1994.
Principal Architect: Hal Brandes, Marquis Associates
Project Manager: Jim Karam, Richard Sampson Associates
Citizen Support Groups:
- Friends of the Albany Library
- Library/Community Center Design Advisory Committee
- Albany Center Builders
Size: 15,000 sq.ft.
Book Capacity: over 50,000 volumes
Cost: approximately $4,000,000
Funding:
- State of California, $2.6 million (Library Construction &
Renovation Bond Act of 1988, through grant administered by State
Library)
- City of Albany & private donations, $1.4 million
Special Features:
- Edith Stone Room
- Albany resident Edith Stone (1888-1984), an avid reader and
lifelong library patron, left her entire estate to the Albany
Library, in the hope that generations of children to come would
learn the same love of reading that had so enriched her life. Her
bequest became the seed money for the construction of the new
library building.
- The library's public meeting room is named the Edith Stone Room
in her honor.
- Conference & Quiet Study Rooms
- Public Use Computers, including Internet access
- Local History Alcove
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