Library Timeline

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1930: 164,966 books in collection; 3,450 daily circulation  
- Post-Standard, Sept. 6, 1930

1930: Library service to area hospital patients commenced by Syracuse Public Library’s extension department   
- Herald, Mar. 1, 1931

1931: “Industrial Room” with technology and engineering books and magazines opens under former Solvay Process librarian Edith Schroeder       
- Herald, Sept. 19, 1931

1933: New information service for job seekers started with resources on vocations and local job initiated
- Post-Standard, July 30, 1933

1934: Talking book machines to be placed for loan at the Syracuse Public Library  
- Herald, Nov. 27, 1934
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1936: With a staff of Works Progress Administration workers, “book messenger” service to shut-ins of all ages began, delivering over 400 books to home-bound patrons
- 1936 Annual Report

1937: Museum of Fine Arts moved from Central Library to a James Street location 
- Herald-Journal, Jan. 11, 1988

1937: Former President Herbert Hoover guest of honor at an Americanization League reception held at the library   
- Herald, Nov. 13, 1937

1938: Jewish Book Week observed at Central Library
- Journal, May 16, 1938

1938: Dollar Donor” campaign launched to increase library’s book collection with the cooperation of local bookstores and patrons
-1938 Annual Report

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1939: W.P.A. workers paint interior of Central Library for the first time since 1905 
- 1939 Annual Report