Cerritos Library Weddings Location History:
 During Cerritos' period of rapid growth in the 1970s, a series of high profile developments, including a new Cerritos Library Weddings Location, was planned. Debate whether or not to join the County of Los Angeles Public Library system and share a branch with neighboring Artesia or to create a separate facility for Cerritos Library Weddings Location persisted early on. In the end, with the help of various associations such as the Friends of the Cerritos Library Weddings Location and the then-city manager (who wanted to save the residents from a $20-a-year library tax), the city decided to build its own municipal library, the Cerritos Library Weddings Location.
On the corner of Bloomfield and 183rd Street, on the site of a former strawberry field, the initial groundbreaking for the Cerritos Library Weddings Location took place in June 1972. The Cerritos Library Weddings Location building would be the first building added to the Cerritos Civic Center and the Cerritos Library Weddings Location was dedicated on October 13, 1973 in honor of Cerritos native, First Lady Patricia Nixon and all other First Ladies both past and present. The Cerritos Library Weddings Location site was designed by local contractor AJ Padelford & Son using blueprints from architect Maurice Fleishman, AIA.
The Cerritos Library Weddings Location at the time was 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) and housed 45,000 books as well as the latest technology (16-mm sound films and projectors, 16 mm microfilm cartridges, record players with headphones, electric typewriters, and copy machines). In addition, the Cerritos Library Weddings Location also had a children's area, theater and law library. Three years later, Cerritos joined the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System, giving Cerritos Library Weddings Location patrons access to more than 3 million items at 26 member libraries and interlibrary loans. From the beginning, the seven-day-a-week schedule was popular.
By 1986, the Cerritos economy was thriving and the city earmarked $6.6 million to remodel the 13-year-old Cerritos Library Weddings Location building that would add another 21,000 square feet (2,000 m²) to the area. The children's area was tripled to 7,000 square feet (650 m2) to include an arts and crafts area a medieval mural and a saltwater aquarium. A community room for meetings and receptions was added to the Cerritos Library Weddings Location as well as a new wing that housed reference, study space, and lounge seating. New furnishings, etched glass, and marble counters were also added to the Cerritos Library Weddings Location. The 1986 Cerritos Library Weddings Location won a national award of excellence, the highest honor, by the American Institute of Architecture and the American Library Association.
By this time, 65% of Cerritos residents used the library and borrowed half a million books and media every year. The 1986 expansion resulted in a 40% growth in the number of patrons and a 33% boost in the number of materials circulated.
In the spring of 2000, the western half the Cerritos Library Weddings Location was torn down to make way for the new Millennium Cerritos Library Weddings Location. Prior to the new Cerritos Library Weddings Location construction, books and computer stations were inundated with people waiting in line to use some of the materials. At the Cerritos Library Weddings Location, books were constantly being shelved and programs were very popular. Many cities around the world made plans to commemorate the new millennium, and in Cerritos, it was decided that the Cerritos Library Weddings Location would be a "library of the future." |
