(via Hopkins’ library turns 100 | StarTribune.com)
Hopkins celebrates centennial June 3
One hundred years. Four locations. Three rooms in the City Hall in 1912 to a 12,500-square-foot renovation in 2002. The public and staff are invited to submit stories and memories of the library online. The Friends of the Hopkins Library will be hosting a “Happy 100th” celebration on June 3, 1-3 p.m.
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Most dispatches are from librarians at the James K. Hosmer Special Collections. Special Collections' Minneapolis History Collection covers an extensive array of materials on city history, including thousands of photographs, clippings, documents, books, programs, reports, yearbooks and hundreds of archival collections. Special Collections also houses several other collections on World War II, 19th century literature, the Abolitionist movement, Mark Twain, and the History of Books and Printing. You can visit Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library. Hennepin County Library includes 41 libraries. More than 5 million books, CDs and DVDs in 40 world languages. Almost 1800 public computers. One great system serving 1.2 million residents of Hennepin County. We're on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, too.
