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July Closures
July 3, 4 & 5
Main Library and all branches closed due to budget cuts and for the July 4th Holiday
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Library Open July 2, Closed July 3 - 5
While the City of Oakland will be closed from Friday, July 2 - Monday, July 5, the Library will be open during its regular hours on Friday, July 2, 12 Noon to 5:30 p.m. in order to serve our patrons looking for that last minute book or DVD for the long holiday weekend.
All branch libraries and Main Library will be open to the public on Friday, July 2 and closed for the July 4 weekend, from Saturday, July 3 to Monday, July 5. The closure includes a day off due to the City of Oakland's budget shortfall, and two days for the July 4 holiday. As the holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is taken as holiday time for City and Library staff. |
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Oakland History Room Takes a Look Back at Oaks Baseball
Through July 31
Oakland History Room, Main Library, 2nd floor
 To coincide with baseball season, the Oakland History Room began exhibiting The Oakland Oaks: Pro Baseball in Emeryville, 1913-1955. It's a historic overview of the Oaks, who represented the East Bay in the old Pacific Coast League, and includes rare photographs, yellowed newspaper clippings, scorecards, and a well-used ballglove or two. In addition to paying homage to players and managers such as Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, and Lefty O'Doul, the exhibit reveals much about the neighborhood that surrounded Oaks Park - fascinating for anyone who has passed the Pixar Studios campus and wondered what was there before. The exhibit closes at the end of July, so be sure to visit soon. The Oakland History Room is at the Main Library, on the 2nd floor. |
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Children's Summer Reading Program Continues in July
Through August 14
All Library Locations
 The 2010 Summer Reading Program - with the theme MAKE A SPLASH! READ - is fully underway. Kids, ages 13 and under, are invited to enjoy a summer's worth of magic tricks, music, wildlife, theater, and good books. Kids can drop by any branch library or the Main Library's Children's Room to sign up and start reading their way to fun prizes.
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Elmhurst Branch Closing Temporarily
This month building improvements begin at the Elmhurst Branch Library that will keep the branch closed from July 5 until mid-November. The improvements will include a new fully accessible restroom, a new drinking fountain, a new open entry and lobby with automatic doors, new lighting, repair of clerestory windows, new shades, new interior and exterior paint, a curb cut for ADA accessibility, new landscaping, new exterior signage, and some changes to staff offices and mechanical/electrical closets.
During the closure, the branch's book drops will be out of service. Patrons are asked not to leave books or any other materials outside the book drops. All materials can be returned at other branches. Patrons assume all responsibility for any items not returned safely to the library. |
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Oakland Army Base Life Captured in Oral History Project Publication
Book Release Party: Thursday, July 22, 6 to 8 p.m.
West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline St.
 A book launch celebration for The Oakland Army Base: An Oral History, published this spring by UC Berkeley's Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at The Bancroft Library, will be held on Thursday, July 22, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the West Oakland Senior Center, at the corner of Adeline and 18th Street, across the street from the West Oakland Branch Library.
The project team - from The Bancroft Library, the Oakland Public Library's Oakland History Room, and the Port of Oakland and City of Oakland - are sponsoring the event to honor these contributors and celebrate publication of the book.
Life at the former Oakland Army Base, from construction of its barracks and shipping piers in 1941, to base closure in 1999, is explored in the interviews with nearly 50 servicemen and women, civilian employees and longshore workers from every era of the base's history, and local community members involved in base conversion once it closed in 1999.
The Bancroft Library will present complimentary copies of the book to everyone who attends the book launch. Light refreshments will be served.
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