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Sonoma County Library company history timeline

1975

Sebastopol's Carnegie Library just before demolition in October 1975

1975 Sonoma County allocated funds for a new Guerneville Library.

1975 Petaluma Library staff of nine with two part-time.

1975 Healdsburg Public Library became a part of the Sonoma County Library system.

In 1975, a county-wide Library Joint Powers Agreement was signed, uniting all public libraries in Sonoma County in one system.

1976

1976 Guerneville Library designated a Regional Library on implementation of Joint Powers Agreement.

1976 New Petaluma Library opened with an existing collection of 60,000 books and room for an additional 40,000.

1976 Rohnert Park-Cotati library established on Hunter Drive.

1978

1978 Site on Armstrong Woods Road selected for new Guerneville Regional Library.

1979

1979 Cloverdale Regional Library completed, facilitated by the generosity and efforts of the Women Improvement Club.

1981

1981 Guerneville Regional Library dedicated and opened.

1988

1988 Funding by the City of Santa Rosa and California state grant allocated for a library in Rincon Valley.

1991

1991 City of Santa Rosa and CA State grants awarded to fund what became the Rincon Valley Branch.

1993

1993 Held the first countywide Summer Reading Program

1994

1994 Opening of the Rincon Valley Library in eastern Santa Rosa.

1996

1996 Central Library’s California Room collection moved to the Annex: the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library.

1998

As the collection grew, in 1998 it was transferred to 725 Third Street, commonly known as “The Annex.”

2008

2008 Launched downloadable audiobooks to the public.

2008 Began retro RFID tagging project in preparation for self-checkout.

2012

2012 Library Joint Powers Agreement review and revisions began.

2014

2014 Revised Library Joint Powers Agreement was approved and instituted.

2016

The recent work was paid for by proceeds from Measure Y, a one-eighth of a cent sales tax approved by Sonoma County voters in 2016.

2019

An open house and celebration is planned for January 9, 2019, from 4 to 8 p.m.

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