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1970: Martin Luther
King Room dedicated at Central Library
- Post-Standard, April 10, 1970
1971: A preliminary
report of the Syracuse Public Library makes a new main library a “priority for the 1970s”
- Post-Standard,
Jan. 13, 1971
1971: Mayor Alexander
asks for county contribution to library operating expenses, noting that more than a third of registered
borrowers are non-city residents
- Herald-Journal, March 4, 1971
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1971: Onondaga County
Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee approves $20,000 to aid Central Library
- Herald-Journal,
August 26, 1971
1973: The Citizens’
Advisory Committee to Study Libraries in Onondaga County proposes the creation of an Onondaga County
Library System which would also operate Central Library
- Post-Standard, June 28, 1973
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1973: County planners
study ideas for a new Central Library proposed for land on State St.
– Herald-Journal, Oct. 12, 1973
1974: County Executive
John Mulroy proposes a combined library and parking garage complex to replace Central Library
- Herald-Journal,
March 5, 1974
1974: County
Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee approves $580,000 to pay the county share of operating Central
Library
- Herald-Journal, April 25, 1974
1974: Public library
station for Spanish-speaking patrons established at the Spanish Action League’s Headquarters on Syracuse’s West Side
by the Syracuse Public Library
- Post-Standard, July 4, 1974
1974: About 50
paintings by John D. Barrow “discovered” in storage at the Beauchamp and White branch libraries
- Herald-Journal,
Oct. 10, 1974
1974: Elmwood
Branch of the Syracuse Public Library will be closed after January 1 with service to the
neighborhood to be provided by the Bookmobile
- Post-Standard,
Nov. 20, 1974
1974: Provisional
charter granted to the Onondaga County Public Library by the State Board of Regents
- Post-Standard,
Dec. 17, 1974
1975: National Library Week observed with the theme of "Information Power"
- Herald-Journal, April 18, 1975
1975: Robert P.
Kinchen named director of the newly formed Onondaga County Public Library
- Post-Standard,
August 14, 1975
1975: Proposed
library-parking garage complex plan shelved
- Herald-Journal, Jan. 4, 1975
1975: Agreement
between the city and the county gives ownership of Central Library and annex to the county
which would be responsible for operating and maintenance costs; the county will operate
(but not own) city branches and the city will pay expenses
– Herald-Journal,
March 27, 1975
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1975: Southwest
Community Center opens on South Ave. and includes a public library station
– Herald-Journal,
Aug. 14, 1975
1975: The
Board of Regents dissolves the Onondaga Library System and the Syracuse Public Library and permanently
charters the Onondaga County Public Library
- Post-Standard,
Oct. 31 1975
1975: City auditor
advocates the complete consolidation of branch library services and financing
under the county in addition to the Central Library
- Post-Standard, Dec. 5, 1975
1976: New logo for the Onondaga County Public Library unveiled
- Post-Standard, April 9, 1976
1976: A 140-year-old
clock, stolen from the Beauchamp Branch over a year ago, was recovered in New York City and returned to
the library
- Post-Standard, August 13, 1976
1977: County reduced funding of Central Library
- Post-Standard, June 7, 1977
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1978: O.C.P.L patrons
received the first plastic library cards with bar codes in anticipation of an automated circulation system
- 1978
Annual Report
1978: Betts, Paine and
Soule became the first Onondaga County Public Library branches to be “automated” with the Gaylord Computerized Circulation System,
with bar coded book and patron
library cards in July
-1978 Annual Report
1978: Beauchamp Branch
received a new furnace, improved exterior lighting and window bars for added security
-1978
Annual Report
1979: Employee award
established in honor of former librarian Ossie Golden
- Post-Standard,
Feb. 22, 1979
1979: County
legislature approves hiring library guard to “combat a growing problem of
harassment of patrons and employees by
derelicts”
- Herald-Journal, May 8,
1979
1979: County
Legislature’s Committee on Education and Libraries rejects former Post Office building on Clinton Square as possible home
of a new central library
- Post-Standard, July 25, 1979
1979: “Roadrunner”,
constructed on a motor home chassis, replaces 1969 Bookmobile
- Herald-Journal, Sept. 5, 1979
1979: “Roadrunner”
bookmobile recalled by Chrysler Corp.
- Herald-American, Dec.
9, 1979
1979: OCPL organized
the Consumer Health Information Consortium (C.H.I.C.) among the regions’ libraries
- 1979 Annual
Report
1979: “The Creative
Rag”, a magazine “by and for children,” is created by OCPL in observance of the International Year of the Child
- 1979 Annual Report
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