OCPL Home > About OCPL > OCPL Timeline > 1930s
[Click any image to see larger version]
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
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
Dollar Donor - Image 1
Dollar Donor - Image 2
Dollar Donor - Image 3
Dollar Donor - Image 4
1939: W.P.A. workers paint
interior of Central Library for the first time since 1905
- 1939 Annual Report
Choose Another Time Period From the List Below
Last updated February 5, 2010
Newpaper Clipping - Image 1