Orinda Library celebrates 100 Years
The Orinda Library turns 100 this year. Come join the celebration,Saturday, May 17, 3-5 p.m. in the Library Plaza. Outside the Library – 3 local musical groups perform, cupcakes, balloons and beautiful gift baskets to raffle off. On-going trivia contest with prizes donated by area businesses. Inside the Library Garden Room – a quilting talk with national award winning Orinda quilt artist Liz Piatt, 5 minute video about the history of the Orinda Library, and birthday crafts with Orinda children’s librarian Lin Look.The Library began in 1914 as one small shelf of books in the
Orinda Park School. Book collections
then migrated to the Orinda Store, where by 1925 it had become two shelves of books. In 1935, the Library was housed in the newly
constructed Fire Station, and in 1949 found another home in the Orinda
Community Church. By 1953 Orinda
citizens began raising money for construction of a larger library, at the
corner of Irwin and Orinda Way. This
structure was dedicated on November 14, 1958, with an addition built in
1971. The new library building project
began as part of the Heart of Orinda capital planning project. The beautiful new library building complex ,
dedicated in 2001, has over 38,000
square feet of space, one thousand nine hundred and eighty one shelves of books,
dvds, books on cd, and magazines,
community meeting rooms, 140 seat auditorium, and houses the Orinda Historical
Society Museum.
3:30-4:30, Garden Room – Orinda resident and nationally renowned
quilt artist Liz Piatt talks about her design and quilting process. Dozens of her quilts will be on display.
3:30-4:30, Gallery Room – Happy Birthday crafts withchildren’s librarian, Lin Look
Join your friends and neighbors to wish the Orinda Library avery happy 100th Birthday.
The 100th Anniversary Celebration is sponsored by
the Friends of the Orinda Library, established
decades ago to provide substantial financial and community support for
Orinda’s library facility, its collections and varied programs.
